“This is the quintessence of wisdom: not to injure any…

“This is the quintessence of wisdom: not to injure any living being.” – Mahavira

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Other Vegetarianism Quotes

“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…
Vegetarian: old Indian word for “lousy hunter.” - Bumper sticker - View Quote Details on Vegetarian: old Indian word for “lousy hunter.” - Bumper sticker
” Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an ailment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet” - Thomas Jefferson, letter written on March 21, 1819 to Dr. Vine Utley - View Quote Details on ” Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately,…
“Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?” - Ashley Montagu - View Quote Details on “Do we have the right to rear animals in order…
“I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, with perception and with voice. For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.” - Plutarch, Moralia. - View Quote Details on “I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling,…
George Nicholson (1760 - 1825), Remarks on defenses of flesh-eating - View Quote Details on George Nicholson (1760 - 1825), Remarks on defenses of flesh-eating
“Based on the fossil record one big spurt in hominid cranial capacity seems to have occurred with the appearance of Homo erectus approximately 1.75 million years ago, long before red meat could have been a regular part of hominid diets.” – Donna Hart and Robert W. Sussman, Man the Hunted, expanded edition, p. 256 - View Quote Details on “Based on the fossil record one big spurt in hominid…
“Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as protein is not much superior to eggs or nuts and could not alter the evolution of the brain; if this were so this miracle food would have continued to enlarge humans’ brain size in succeeding years when much greater amounts of meat were consumed ” – Colin Spencer, The Heretic’s Feast - View Quote Details on “Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as…
” Man came before the axe and fire so he couldn’t be carnivorous.The length of mans digestive tube is 5-8 meters and the distance between the mouth and the coccyx is 50 to 80 centimetres, which gives us a result of 10 as in other frugivorous animals and not 3 as in the carnivorous or 20 as in the herbivorous animals.The only animal with probable omnivorous morphology that exists, is the bear, which has some pointed teeth and others that are flat.” - Thomas Henry Huxley - View Quote Details on ” Man came before the axe and fire so he…
“[W]e were selling books, and right next to us was an old man. I mean, he had to be about 80 years old, and he was a nutritionist, but he was a holistic nutritionist, and he was talking to us about how you shouldn’t really eat animals and things of that nature… and he pulled up his shirt and the man had the abs of a 15-year-old. He says to us, “Touch ’em. Punch me,”—whatever—and he’s like, “How old do you think I am?” And we thought he was about 50 years old, and he’s like, “I’m 86 years old.”… We looked at each other, me and my friends, and we were, like, when we’re 86, we want to be like that…. So that’s what started it.” – Jeru the Damaja, in a peta2 interview - View Quote Details on “[W]e were selling books, and right next to us was…