Vegetarianism Quotes - Page 10

• Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

  Zicheng Hong

  Life, Death, Retirement

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). “A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots"”

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Animal, Cooking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?

  Steven Morrissey

  Grandmother, Animal, Sticks

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• Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.

  James Marcus

  Alternatives, Vegetarian Health, Plans

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• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.

  Nhat Hanh

  Country, Buddhist, Animal

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• Vegetarianism preserves live, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Spiritual, Powerful, Animal

  FaceBook post by Gabriel Cousens, MD from Oct 07, 2015

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• I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

  Peter Burwash

  Real, Commitment, Hockey

  Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books

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• Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Dog, Lying

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• To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus [holymen]; it does not consist of meat... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook of meat myself, but... meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit meat-eating in any form, in any manner and in any place; it is unconditionally prohibited for all.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Meat Eating, People

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• The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.

  Matthew Scully

  Dog, Evil, Pork

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.138, Souvenir Press

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• The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life. We create these animals for our profit and pleasure, playing with their genes, violating their dignity as living creatures, forcing them to lie and live in their own urine and excrement, turning pens into penitentiaries and frustrating their every desire except what is needed to keep them breathing and breeding. And then we complain about the smell.

  Matthew Scully

  Lying, Home, Animal

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• It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Differences, Community

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• With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have to drag it, you don't have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Discipline, Meditation

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• Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Missing, Understanding

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• Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.

  Rajneesh

  Effort, Earth, Flight

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is not a question of argument, it is not a question of scriptures, it is not who says what, it is not a question of calculating that if you take vegetarian food you will become spiritual; it is automatic. It is not a question of cunningness, you simply become spiritual. The whole thing seems so absurd. Just for food, killing animals, birds, seems so absurd, it falls down.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Hurt, Fall

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