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Quotes About Compassion

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
~ Barry Lopez
I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
~ Zack de la Rocha
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.
~ Philip Kapleau
We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
~ James Cromwell
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.
~ Peter Tosh
Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone
~ Tracy Chapman
From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.
~ Jamie Oliver
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
~ Dave Mustaine
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
~ Albert Einstein
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
~ Joseph Butler
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.
~ Ted Allen
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
~ John Denver
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
~ Joseph Campbell
Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.
~ James Cromwell
The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Donate to the extent that you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy.
~ Sivaji Ganesan
They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.
~ Gary L. Francione
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
~ Joan Jett
When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
~ Rachael Ray
I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.
~ Louis C.K.
When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.
~ Mother Teresa