“I look my age; and I am my age. It…
“I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?” – George Bernard Shaw, in a conversation with him Archibald Henderson in 1924
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Other Vegetarianism Quotes
- “It is strange to hear people talk on humanitarianism, who are members of societies for prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite.” - Ha’nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913, p. 196 - View Quote Details on “It is strange to hear people talk on humanitarianism, who…
- “I am experiencing an unprecedented surge of health and my energy has soared.” – Ilya Repin, in Vegetarianskoe obozrenie (after he became a vegetarian) - View Quote Details on “I am experiencing an unprecedented surge of health and my…
- “People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer - View Quote Details on “People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as…
- Oliver Goldsmith, On The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - View Quote Details on Oliver Goldsmith, On The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
- “Were one to stop and think of what meat is, and what it was, it is doubtful if one could eat it. It is merely dead and decaying flesh - flesh from the body of an animal. […] Only by the fact that hey are covered up, and their true nature concealed by cooking, and basting, and pickling, and peppering and salting can we eat them at all. If we were natural carnivorous animals, we should delight in bloodshed and gore of all kind! […] We should eat our flesh warm and quivering - just as it comes from the cow!” - Hereward Carrington, The Natural Food for Man, p. 160-161 - View Quote Details on “Were one to stop and think of what meat is,…
- “Refrain at all times such foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. For know that all the inferior Creatures, when hurt, do cry and send forth their complaints to their Maker.” - Thomas Tryon, The Way to Health, Long Life, and Happiness, 1683 - View Quote Details on “Refrain at all times such foods as cannot be procured…
- “For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to beef cattle in the United States we only get 1 pound back in meat on our plates. The other 15 pounds are inaccessible to us, either used by the animal to produce energy or to make some part of its own body that we do not eat (like hair or bones) or excreted.” – Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet - View Quote Details on “For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to…
- “I’m on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I’m totally spiritual…” -Avril Lavigne - View Quote Details on “I’m on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day,…
- “It is not my purpose here to discuss the question of vegetarianism, or to meet the objections that may be urged against it; though it must be admitted that of these objections not one can withstand a loyal and scrupulous inquiry. I, for my part, can affirm that those whom I have known to submit themselves to this regimen have found its result to be improved or restored health, marked addition of strength, and the acquisition by the mind of a clearness, brightness, well-being, such as might follow the release from some secular, loathsome, detestable dungeon.” - Maurice Maeterlinck, on The Buried Temple (le Temple Enseveli), III - The kingdoom of Matter, 5 - View Quote Details on “It is not my purpose here to discuss the question…
- “Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for … animals. Do it for the environment, and do it for your health.” - Alec Baldwin, in the PETA website, he worked with PETA. - View Quote Details on “Every time we sit down to eat, we make a…
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