Vegetarianism Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

  Plutarch

  Kindness, Philosophical, Animal

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

  George Bernard Shaw

  War, Fighting, Vegetarian Diet

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• The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny Inspirational, Average, Long

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• I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Death, Children, Pain

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

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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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• But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

  Plutarch

  Life, Animal, Light

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• Man is the only animal that can be bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Animal, Men, Boredom

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.40, Routledge

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• Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Justice, Together

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

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• We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarian Diet, Vegan

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

  Shania Twain

  Funny Inspirational, Thinking, Vegan

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• It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite.

  Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish

  Children, Animal, Men

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• We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

  James Cromwell

  Karma, Running, Food

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• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Sarcastic, Hate

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• All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Winning, People, Trying

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• Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sports, Honesty, Integrity

  Oceana ch. 5 (1886)

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• Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

  Andy Rooney

  Health, Safety, Hunters

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• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Men, Compassion

  "Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (p. 257), 1972.

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• For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Compassion, Meat

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• Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Joy, Pet

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.906, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Vegan, Truthful

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

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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, Data, Steps

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• Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Love, Religious, Compassion

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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