Vegetarian Quotes - Page 4

• Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

  Shania Twain

  Funny Inspirational, Thinking, Vegetarianism

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• The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

  Stella McCartney

  Animal, Shoes, Vegan

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• Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Funny Inspirational, Eye, Feel Better

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• In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

  Cesar Chavez

  Food, Animal, Unhappy

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• There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Long, World

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• When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Justice

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• Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is
  unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Vegetarianism, Giving

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• Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

  Peter Singer

  Sight, Meat, Sound

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• If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Death, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.

  Pamela Anderson

  Dog, Kids, Giving

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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Food, Thinking, Vegetarian Diet

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

  Dennis Weaver

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

  "The vegetarians". Book by Rynn Berry, p. 64, 1979.

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• It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

  Gautama Buddha

  Animal, Evil, Suffering

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• I'm vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Giving, Energy, Needs

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• When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

  William C. Roberts

  Animal, Flesh, Vegan

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• Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. My mum taught me to have a soul.

  Stella McCartney

  Funny Inspirational, Shoes, Soul

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• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Christmas, Food

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• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Destiny, Vegetarianism, World

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• I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Respect, Animal, Feelings

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Cat, Animal

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• Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

  Bill Griffith

  Religious, Food, Vegetarianism

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