Quotes About Vegetarianism

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

The fear abounded that once they were allowed into the art schools, who knew where it would end: their demands for equality were understood to be akin to anarchism, socialism, vegetarianism and atheism.

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

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

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

According to Grandad, being a vegetarian wasn't about just health or cruelty of money or flavor: it was about manners. He said that stealing milk and eggs and honey was enough of a liberty without hacking off someone's leg and then drowning it in gravy. He had a point.

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?

Vegetarianism is the best way of expressing love for animals.

During my teenage years, I rebelled and ate everything under the sun, but when I was 18 or 19, I became vegetarian-focused and got disgusted by meat.

I became a vegetarian and I ate less.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.

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.

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Nulla darà la possibilità di sopravvivenza sulla terra quanto l'evoluzione verso una dieta vegetariana

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.