Vegetarian Quotes - Page 29

• I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Food, Cooking, Meat

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

  Karl Urban

  Wings, Trying, Energy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.

  Brittany Daniel

  Long, Important, Meat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

  Plutarch

  Philosophical, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering on them.

  Peter Singer

  Philosophical, Responsibility, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

  Carmen Electra

  Fashion, Animal, Creatures

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• There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.

  Moby

  Sports, Animal, Abuse

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• Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.

  Charlize Theron

  Fashion, Animal, Needs

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• It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.

  Roy Fuller

  Men, Messages, Christianity

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• Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Respect, Responsibility, Vegetarianism

  "Civilization and Ethics".

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• I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Race, Agreement

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

  Peter Dinklage

  Dog, Hurt, Cat

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• I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.

  Claudia Black

  People, World, Want

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• I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

  Bryan Shelton

  Tests, Poultry, Clients

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• The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Past, Men, Agriculture

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• Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?

  Peter Cheeke

  Writing, Essence, Ideas

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• When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

  George Bernard Shaw

  Night, Men, Giving

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• I eat vegetarian. I am just drawn to clean eating, and although I do not deprive myself of sweets or French fries once in a while, my body just feels better if I give it good fuel to work with.

  Tricia Helfer

  Sweet, Feel Better, Giving

  "ORIGIN Series: Battlestar Galactica, Razor, and Suits Actor Tricia Helfer". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Have you seen Cowspiracy? It takes a lot more land to feed a meat eater than to feed a vegan or a vegetarian. It's something I'd love to get into but it's very hard to persuade people to stop things they've been doing for a long time. So maybe it needs to start with the next generation. Everyone needs to raise their children with a bit more responsibility.

  Douglas Booth

  Children, Responsibility, Land

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.

  Tobe Hooper

  Couple, Nice, Years

  Interview with Kate and Laura Mulleavy, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2014.

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• The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. There are, it is true, some inconveniences: lions and tigers are too fierce, the summer is too hot, and the winter too cold. But these things only began after Adam ate the apple; I before that, all animals were vegetarians, and the season was always spring. If only Adam had been content with peaches and nectarines, grapes and pears and pineapples, these blessings would still be ours.

  Bertrand Russell

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Couple, Animal, Simple

  "Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I'm not a vegetarian. I'm neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.

  Noel Coward

  Food, Pigs, Virginia

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• I'm not a vegetarian, and I like filet minion which is sort of a guilty pleasure because I have vegetarian leanings. I eat that once in a while, but generally speaking I like to eat vegetarian things. I really like pasta. I really like bread with olive oil and garlic and I like salads.

  Jesse Michaels

  Oil, Pasta, Salad

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