Vegetarianism Quotes
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence
Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.
I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.
I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit.
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
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.
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.