Vegetarianism Quotes

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

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.

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

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

I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.

If you knew how meat was made, youd probably lose your lunch.

I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.

Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion.

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

Vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a spotted cow but not morally wrong to eat meat from a non-spotted cow.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

Vegetarianism is a good idea.

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?

The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.

I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years.

I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.

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

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth - at least the metaphysical.

Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.

As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat of you tomorrow. In another birth.

Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth.

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

There's plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don't hurt, kill and eat animals to increase your girth

I love animals, especially with barbeque sauce.

Once you come to terms with why you don't eat cats, dogs, monkeys, and dolphins, you will begin to understand why I don't eat cows, pigs, chickens, and lambs.

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

Meat may taste good, but the guilt of eating it tastes far worse.