“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some…

“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.” - Mahatma Gandhi.

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Other Vegetarianism Quotes

“I believe my dear Master has been pleased to try my faith and obedience by teaching me that I ought no longer to partake of anything that had life.” - Joshua Evans - View Quote Details on “I believe my dear Master has been pleased to try…
“I am a very strict vegetarian….I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.” – Natalie Portman - View Quote Details on “I am a very strict vegetarian….I just really, really love…
“When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from his contemporaries: so clean, well-mannered and humble. About six months earlier he had apparently given up drugs and drink, become a vegetarian and taken to reading Ramakrishna’s book’s.” - Ravi Shankar, Raga Mala - View Quote Details on “When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from…
“It is a specious but false reason to allege that, since man has acquired this taste, he ought to be permitted to indulge it – in the first place because Nature has not given him cooked flesh, and because several ages must have rolled away before fire was used. […] Nature, then, could have given man only raw or living flesh, and we know that it is repugnant to him over the whole extent of the earth.” – Jean Antoine Gleizes, Thalysie, 1840 - View Quote Details on “It is a specious but false reason to allege that,…
“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…
“Thousands-millions and billions-of animals are killed for food. That is very sad. We human beings can live without meat, especially in our modern world. We have a great variety of vegetables and other supplementary foods, so we have the capacity and the responsibility to save billions of lives. I have seen many individuals and groups promoting animal rights and following a vegetarian diet. This is excellent.” – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Religious Vegetarianism from Hesiod to the Dalai Lama - View Quote Details on “Thousands-millions and billions-of animals are killed for food. That is…
“As for me, I could never so much as endure, without remorse and griefe, to see a poore, sillie, and innocent beast pursued and killed, which is harmelesse and voide of defence, and of whom we receive no offence at all. - Montaigne, Of Cruelty - View Quote Details on “As for me, I could never so much as endure,…
“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…
“True and constant vigor of the body is the effect of health, which is much better preserved with watery, herbaceous, frugal, and tender food, than with vinous, abundant, hard, and gross flesh. […] the vulgar opinion, then which, on health reasons condemns vegetable food and so much praises animal food, being so ill-founded, I have always thought it well to oppose myself to it, moved both by experience and by that refined knowledge of natural things which some study and conversation with great men have given me.” - Antonio Cocchi, The Pythagorean Diet - View Quote Details on “True and constant vigor of the body is the effect…
“Go veg—for animals, for your health, for life. ” – Masta Killa from Wu-Tang Clan, from the pro-vegetarian add he did for PETA - View Quote Details on “Go veg—for animals, for your health, for life. ” –…