Vegetarianism

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Vegetarianism

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• "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral." - Leo Tolstoy, On Civil Disobedience
• "It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind." - Albert Einstein, letter to Vegetarian Watch-Tower, December 27, 1930
• "I, for my part, wonder 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 form of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but know were beings endowed with with movement, with perception and with voice" - Plutarch, Moralia.
• "How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?" - Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 251

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• "As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." - Pythagoras
• "The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." - Leonardo da Vinci
• "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals." - Henry David Thoreau
• "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein
• "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.
• "To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana." - Buddha.
• "Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals." - Theodor Adorno
• "Have you just started that meal or are you just finishing it?" - Winston Churchill to vegetarian cabinet minister Sir Stafford Cripps as they ate a meal together.
• "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." - Alice Walker.
• "If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one." - Dick Gregory.
• "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."- Paul McCartney

Unattributed

• "If we weren't meant to eat animals, they wouldn't be made of meat."
• "Salad? That's what food eats!"
• "Vegetarians are eating the rainforest."
• "Vegetarianism is the practice of only killing and eating living things that cannot scream or fight back and feeling moraly superior because of it."

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