“Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.” – Bill Griffith
“Every living creature has the right to live ethically.” -Dirk Verbeuren
“It’s true. Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.” – Bill Bailey
“All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.” -Anonymous
“Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.” – Albert Einstein
“It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.” Roy E. Disney
“Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.” – Alec Baldwin
“Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.” – Amy Smart
“I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.” – Bernhard Goetz
“With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.”- Bernhard Goetz
“One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna…Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krishna Himself. Whatever else you eat, can not be offered to Him, since He will not accept it.” – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” -Albert Einstein
“One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more” – Akkineni Nagarjuna
“I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me – how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?” – Carre Otis
“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing; they don’t count; they don’t matter. They are commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects – sandwiches and shoes.” Gary Yourofsky
“It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.” – Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
“Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It’s like biting into your grandmother.” -Morrisey
“We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the ‘lower’ animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are members of the One Family. We must not take away the life of any creature. Indeed, we must never take away that which we cannot give. And as we cannot restore a dead creature to life, we have no right to take away its’ life.”
– Dada Vaswani
“One to change a few. A few to change many. Many to change the world. Starts with one.” -Anonymous
“Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.” – Dave Stroud
“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
“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.” -Charles Darwin
“We have found ways . . . to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell . . . in the multinational food industry, . . . and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.” – David
“Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, ‘My appetite is more important than your suffering’?” -Moby
“The inhabitants are numerous and happy… Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink… Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.” – Faxian
“Please don’t refuse with your eyes what the animals endure with their bodies.” -Shaun Monson
“The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don’t have a choice but to go vegan.” – Gary L. Francione
“Compassion is the best side effect of being vegan.” -Anonymous
“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
“Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!” -Steve Simmons
“Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.” – Helen and Scott Nearing
“Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.” -Natalie Portman
“Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?” – Helen and Scott Nearing
“When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as “animals”, yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.” -Anthony Douglas Williams
“I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.” – Helen and Scott Nearing
“I can’t think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.” -Alicia Silverstone
“Animals are not products. Life doesn’t have a price.” -Anonymous
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages” -Thomas Edison
“It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.” – Henry Stephens Salt
“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.” -Hippocrates
“Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.” – Irvine Welsh
“When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or any other animal products, I say, ‘Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.’”-Cassey Afleck
“If there would come a voice from God saying, ‘I’m against vegetarianism!’ I would say, ‘Well, I am for it!’ This is how strongly I feel in this regard.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn’t able to see a difference.” -Kristen Bell
“People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Every time sitting at a dining table, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for the animals. Do it for the environment and for the sake of your own health.” -Alec Baldwin
“To be a vegetarian is to disagree – to disagree with the course of things today… starvation, cruelty – we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it’s a strong one.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
“I love animals. All animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.” -Peter Dinklage
“I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn’t disconnect myself from it any longer.” -Ellen DeGeneres
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we’d all be vegetarian.” -Paul McCartney
“Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.” – James Marcus
“If you don’t like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.” -Johnny Depp
“Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with “what if” scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people’s real-life situations.” – Joanne Stepaniak
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” -Albert Einstein
“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
“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” -Leonardo Da Vinci
“I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.” – Katharine Fullerton Gerould
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites, or women for men.” -Alice Walker
“Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.” – Leo Tolstoy
“The Gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies; they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.” -Plato
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” -Anatole France
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” -Charles Darwin
“My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“No other animal on Earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.” -Anthony Douglas Williams
“I won’t eat anything that has intelligent life, but I’d gladly eat a network executive or a politician.” – Marty Feldman
“People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow.” -Michael Klaper
“Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.” – Marvin Harris
“If you don’t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn’t condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.” -Moby
“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
“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.” -Martin Buber
“To get mud off your hands, use soap and water. To get blood off your hands, go vegan.” -John Sakars
“Nobody really needs a mink coat… Except the mink.” -Glenda Jackson
“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That’s the single most important thing you could do. It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.” – Paul McCartney
“Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.” -Ali Ibn Abi Taalib
“The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” -Gandhi
“When you feel the suffering of every living thing in your own heart, that is consciousness.” -Bhagavad Gita
Which is your favorite?