Vegetarian Quotes - Page 8

• My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vegetarianism, Flesh, Vegan

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Pain, Passion, Animal

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• We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the animals (which is what made me vegetarian) but also the incredible harm to the environment, the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas created by the whole vast machinery of intensive animal farming.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, People, Suffering

  "Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall: Empathizing with Animals and Touching People’s Hearts". Interview with Lauren Kearney, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

  Hippocrates

  Inspiring, Philosophical, Animal

  "Hippocrates".

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• If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live?

  Karyn Calabrese

  Loss, Machines, Care

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• If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

  Walter Willett

  Zero, Vegetarianism, Data

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• I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better

  Bob Barker

  Strong, Feel Better, Thinking

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

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• One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life.

  Morarji Desai

  Taken, Men, Order

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

  Carl Sagan

  Pain, Regret, Compassion

  "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". Book by Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan, 1992.

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• One night I couldn't sleep and I was up and just Googling random stuff and I'm like, 'Hmmm, PETA.' I saw all the videos and I just thought it was horrible, Pickler told People. It's animal cruelty. A lot of it has to do with knowing what happens to the animals and it really bothered me and so I will not eat meat.

  Kellie Pickler

  Sleep, Night, Animal

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• The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

  Ziggy Marley

  Taken, Blood, Meat

  PETA2 Intreview, www.peta2.com. July 20, 2011.

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• You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty.

  Charlotte Ross

  Pain, Animal, Suffering

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• I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Destiny, Race

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

  River Phoenix

  Kids, Vegetarianism, Bully

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

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• I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Animal, Flesh

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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• If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

  Meher Baba

  Understanding, Worship, Christianity

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• My own experience as a person with blood type O was that my health, strength, and vitality significantly improved when I became a vegetarian ... I have also found a significant number of very healthy vegetarians who are Type O.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Blood, Numbers, Healthy

  Gabriel Cousens, M.D. (2009). “Conscious Eating: Second Edition”, p.84, North Atlantic Books

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• As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

  Alice Walker

  Justice, One Day, Firsts

  Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

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• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Abolition Of Slavery, Needs

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.100, Columbia University Press

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• Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell 'Boo' out the window.

  Pamela Anderson

  Kids, Kfc, Vegan

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• Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Justice

  "Animal life in Jewish tradition: attitudes and relationships". Book by Elijah Judah Schochet, p. 297, 1984.

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• I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Animal, Compassion, Rights

  Brigid Brophy (1966). “Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews”, London : Cape

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• I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

  Joe Queenan

  Christian, Jesus, Sunday

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• I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

  Christina Applegate

  Long, Healthy, Together

  "Christina Applegate LIfe Will Surely Manifest Where You Put Your Attention". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. January 6, 2014.

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