Vegetarianism Quotes - Page 10

• I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Light, Protein

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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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, Want

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• I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Animal, Cooking

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• If you knew how meat was made, youd probably lose your lunch.

  K. D. Lang

  Lunch, Meat, Made

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• Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

  Richard Wagner

  Jesus, Wine, Animal

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• Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

  Moby

  Way, Vegan, Environment

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• I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

  Laura Mennell

  Teenager, Animal, Ideas

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• Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to clean the body from slag. A temporary abstinence from meat or animal food is indicated only for very specific magic operations as a sort of preparation, and even then only for a certain period. All this is to be considered with respect to sexual life.

  Franz Bardon

  Animal, Magic, Preparation

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• It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Compassion, Should Have, Vegan

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir John Courtown Edward Shelley-Rolls (bart.), Roger Ingpen (1934). “Verse and prose from the manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, Writing, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2010.

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• The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

  Thomas More

  Life, Death, Animal

  Thomas More (2016). “More: Utopia”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

  Morarji Desai

  Passion, Animal, Men

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• It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Vegetables, Oil

  Adam Smith (1869). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2”, p.473

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• The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Meat, Meals

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• Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Science, Justice

  "The wonder of Chekhov" by James Lasdun, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.

  Davey Havok

  Animal, Compassion, Decision

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

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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, Bully, Meat

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

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• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Food, Inspiration

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did."

  Neal Barnard

  Years, Parent, Twenties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Men, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

  Russell Brand

  Sexy, Recovery, Overcoming Addiction

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 11, 2012

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• vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Humanitarianism

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• Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine - people I have never discussed animal rights or vegetarianism with - are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Animal, Rights, People

  "Fake leather please!". Interview for Daily News and Analysis, www.dnaindia.com. November 14, 2006.

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• I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Trying, Matter

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

  Carol J. Adams

  Imagination, Meat, Alternatives

  Carol J. Adams (1990). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, Continuum

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