Vegetarian Quotes

1. If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. -Paul McCartney.


2. There is a great deal of truth to the idea that you will eventually become what you eat. -Mohandas K. Gandhi


3. To my mind the life of the lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless the creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. -Mohandas K. Gandhi


4. Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. -Leonardo da Vinci


5. "...by increasing plant-based food and lessening animal products such as dairy, eggs, meat, cheese and butter, you will benefit in the long run." -Natalie Ledesma, MS, RD


6. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumble, or is offended, or made weak. -Romans 14:21


7. While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on earth? -George Bernard Shaw.


8. I am very healthy. I eat vegetarian food, am partly vegan, avoid all chemicals and additives and take vitamins. -Uri Geller


9. "It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind." -Albert Einstein Letter to 'Vegetarian Watch-Tower', 27 December 1930


10. "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." -Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President


11. "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.


12. "You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car." -Harvey Diamond.


13. "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery." -Charles Darwin


14. "If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance." -Richard Wagner.


15. "For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." -Pythagoras.


16. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. -Immanuel Kant.


17. We are all God's creatures; that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent. -Isaac Bashevis Singer.


18. When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal! -John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.


19. "When we kill the animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings." -William C. Roberts, M.D., editor of The American Journal of Cardiology.


20. "If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero." -Walter Willett, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, director of a study that found a close correlation between red meat consumption and colon cancer.


21. "All creation has the same right to life." -Sun Bear and Jaya Bear .


22. "If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat." -Kim Basinger.