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“I beg all of the mankind who wants peace/ Try to have great compassion and stop killing!” - Mencius

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Other Vegetarianism Quotes

“If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because…its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling-killing.” - Leo Tolstoy - View Quote Details on “If he be really and seriously seeking to live a…
“For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.” – Gustav Mahler, on a 1880 letter - View Quote Details on “For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian…
“Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is nothing loving or compassionate at factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals endure miserable lives and die violent deaths. Jesus mandates kindness and mercy for all God’s creatures. He’d be appalled by the suffering that we inflict on animals today to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh.” - Bruce Friedrich, Is Eating Meat A Catholic Sin? - View Quote Details on “Jesus’ message is about love and compassion, but there is…
“I presume that very few men and very few women would be willing to go and catch hold either sheep or of oxen and themselves slaughter the creatures in order that they may eat. […] Now, I venture to submit that if people want to eat meat, they should kill the animals for themselves, that they have no right to degrade other people by work of that sort. Nor should they say that if they did not do it the slaughter would still go on. […] Every person who eats meat takes a share in that degradation of his fellow-men; on him and on her personally lies the share, and personally lies the responsibility”. - Annie Besant, Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy, 1913, P. 18-20 - View Quote Details on “I presume that very few men and very few women…
“The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America’s rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance - View Quote Details on “The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of…
“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: In their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer (On Enemies, A Love Story) - View Quote Details on “As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals…
” It seems obvious to me that a Christ-child who is depicted in the scriptures as being born in the stable, surrounded by animals, is not meant to be the figurehead of a Great Slaughter and a feast of gluttony and self indulgence. ” – Lady Dowding - View Quote Details on ” It seems obvious to me that a Christ-child who…
“I was raised on flesh, more flesh, still flesh, always flesh. When I started to use reason and organized my code of principles, I included vegetarianism in it; but it was too late to execute it.”– Machado de Assis, A Semana, 5 de Março de 1893 - View Quote Details on “I was raised on flesh, more flesh, still flesh, always…
“There is no biological need for milk.” - Suzanne r. Havala, MS, RD - View Quote Details on “There is no biological need for milk.” - Suzanne r…
“It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakened to the fact that the flesh of animals as food is not a pure nutriment, but is mixed with poisonous substances, excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal life.”– Dr.John Harvey Kellogg, quoted by C.W. Leadbeater in Vegetarianism and Occultism, 1913, p. 14 - View Quote Details on “It is interesting to note that scientific men all over…