Quotes of Vegetarianism - somelinesforyou

“ Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless.Christmas dinner's dark and blue.When you stop and try to see itFrom the turkey's point of view. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. ”

- John Denver

“ A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung — all dead birds! Once they could fly — fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now — and sold cheap in the open market! ”

- Marie Corelli

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

- Rod Serling

“ 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

“ Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods. ”

- Will Durant

“ Vegetarians eat vegetables. What do humanitarians eat? ”

- Bob Phillips

“ Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, "My appetite is more important than your suffering"? ”

- Moby

“ I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. ”

- Bible

“ It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as make up the state of our treats; as it is a prodigal one to spend more in sauce than in meat. ”

- William Penn

“ I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep. ”

- George Carlin

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

- Sir Robert Hutchinson

“ Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred. ”

- Bible

“ To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. ”

- Buddha

“ It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ People of the future will say, "meat-eaters!" in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism. ”

- Dennis Weaver

“ Sunday dinner isn't sunnyEaster feasts are just bad luckWhen you see it from the viewpointOf a chicken or a duck. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ Were all members of the animal kingdom, Leave your brothers and sisters in the sea. ”

- Prince

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbecue and there was no meat, I'd say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. ”

- Homer Simpson

“ One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make 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

“ It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ”

- Samuel Butler

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

- Paul McCartney

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

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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