Vegetarianism Quotes

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if...

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart fro...

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan...

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...

You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eatin...

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to ...

The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human tempe...

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls""Of course animals have souls, where did she get that...

Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than on...

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, hea...

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions ...

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the tho...

Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture ...

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to l...

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing...

No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out,...

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they ...

The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He...

I am very proud of the fact that 20 years [sic] on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a resu...

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided ...

We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavow...

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated ro...

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. socie...

This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on w...

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytellin...

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirem...

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birt...

The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciati...

The choice-obsessed modern West is probably more accommodating to individuals who choose to eat diff...

A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slight...

Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chic...

As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:"Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminate...

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more soc...

We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of p...

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that...

When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another ...

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...

This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, un...

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will loo...

The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. T...

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages...