Vegetarianism Quotes

One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle

Henry David Thoreau

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Ronald D. Fuchs

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

Jim Davis

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight

Rita Rudner

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals

Finley Peter Dunne

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

A. Whitney Brown

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows

George Bernard Shaw

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 am trying to impress people here, Lisa. You do not win friends with salad

Matt Groening

Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

Leonardo da Vinci

I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

W.E.H. Lecky

Thou shall not kill does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai

Leo Tolstoy

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.

Mahatma Gandhi

I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese.

Anonymous

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill which fortunately very seldom happens, everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes and laugh in a cold, calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

J.B. MORTON

With lentils, tomatoes and rice, olives and nuts and bread, Why does a man care to gnaw a slice of something bleeding and dead?

HENRY BAILEY STEVENS

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness

Robert Hutchinson

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.

k.d. lang

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

George Bernard Shaw

When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian.

Tori Amos

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