VEGETARIANISM QUOTES V

quotations about vegetarianism

I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.

GROUCHO MARX

attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes

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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

RITA RUDNER

attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes

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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and 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

attributed, The Perfectly Contented Meat-eater's Guide to Vegetarianism

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Only by discarding a diet based on rotting corpses could men become sane.

JACK LINDSAY

Fanfrolico and After


Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity. Instead of enjoying with moderation the resources offered him, in place of dispensing them with equity, in place of repairing in proportion as he destroys, of renewing in proportion as he annihilates, the rich man makes all his boast and glory in consuming, all his splendour in destroying, in one day, at his table, more material than would be necessary for the support of several families. He abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

GEORGE BUFFON

L'Histoire Naturelle


I see a vegetarian mayor, not preaching to the masses, but living as a shining example that vegetarians are interested in building a just and thriving city capable of feeding all of its citizens in a sustainable and healthy manner.

DAVID ALEXANDER

"The tofu revolution: Toronto's vegetarians from 1945 to 2009 and beyond", The Edible City


The vegetarian is the only living creature who belongs to the vegetable kingdom.

EVEN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs.

JANE GOODALL

The Ten Trusts


Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

FRAN LEBOWITZ

attributed, Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations

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Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Last Chance to See

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Sooner or later, we'll all be on the menu.

ROD SERLING

"To Serve Man", The Twilight Zone


Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

ISAAC LEIB PERETZ

Taanis Gedanken


Men think it right to eat animals, because they are led to believe that God sanctions it. This is untrue. No matter in what books it may be written that it is not sinful to slay animals and to eat them, it is more clearly written in the heart of man than in any books that animals are to be pitied and should not be slain any more than human beings. We all know this if we do not choke the voice of our conscience.

LEO TOLSTOY

The Pathway of Life: Teaching Love and Wisdom

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The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals.

CHRISSIE HYNDE

attributed, Meaty Vegan Blog


First, how do you prove that mankind is invested with the right of killing them, and that brutes have been created for the purpose you assert them to be? Secondly, it is to be observed that the flesh of man himself possesses the same nourishing and palatable qualities? Are we then to become cannibals for that reason?

LEWIS GOMPERTZ

Moral Inquiries


The meat-free lobby has been rebranding quietly for a while. Certainly, all but the most entrenched dinosaurs have forsworn the prejudice that all vegans and vegetarians are a feeble cohort of joyless neurotics, trussed up in hemp. Today, vegetarians especially are a mainstream minority: they've smartened up their menus and their look. Indeed, perhaps you would even consider going out with one.

PHOEBE LOCKHURST

"Vegetarian London: the best new dishes", Evening Standard, April 5, 2017


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

Saturday Review, May 21, 1898

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A Cornell undergraduate and his academic adviser have come up with a new way to think about vegetarians. And it's not just about what's on their plates. The new theory proposes that vegetarianism is an identity, not just a series of decisions about what to eat. Choosing a plant-based diet -- and a wide variety of ways that people think, feel and behave in relation to that choice -- provides vegetarians with a sense of self, the researchers said, just as race, religion, gender or sexual orientation can provide an identity for others.

SUSAN KELLEY

"What makes a vegetarian? It's not what's on the plate", Cornell Chronicle, April 20, 2017


We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Glimpses of Bengal Letters

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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 his system 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

Walden

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