Vegetarian Quotes to Inspire You

राजीव दिक्षित कहते है Vegetarian quotes can provide you with motivation to continue on your healthy eating journey. Perhaps you need some ideas to help explain your vegetarian convictions to your family and friends.

Here are some vegetarian quotes that might inspire you, make you sad, or encourage you:-

“We all love animals. Why do we call some ‘pets’ and others ‘dinner’?" –K. D. Lang.

“How can you eat anything with eyes?” -Will Kellogg.

“We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.” -James Cromwell.

“A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.” -David Brenner, comedian.

“If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.” –K. D. Lang, musician.

“If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.” -Howard Lyman.

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” -Paul McCartney, musician.

“There is no beast on earth or bird which flieth, but the same is a people like unto you. All God's creatures are God's family.” –Quran.

“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.

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” -Albert Einstein.

“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of ‘real food for real people’ you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.” -Neal Barnard, MD.

“To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.” -Neal Barnard, MD.

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” -Albert Schweitzer.

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” -Charles Darwin.

“Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore.” -Franz Kafka, while admiring fish in an aquarium.

“Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.” -James Marcus.

“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.” –Buddha.

“My body has never been defiled by animal flesh.” -Ezekiel 3 and 4.

“He is closest to God who harms no living creature.” -Bhagavad Gita.

“Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.” -Ben Franklin.

“I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgmental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.” -Drew Barrymore, actress.

“It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.” -Sri Sathya Sai Baba.

“More and more we realize that vegetarian diet is a good idea.” -Dr. Edward Martin, head of Dept. of Defense Health (NPR Oct 27).

“I decided I needed to be consistent in my prolife stance so 13 years ago I became a vegetarian.” -David O’Steen, national director of Right to Life.

“Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.” -Dick Gregory.

"The only foods that contain immune-strengthening and cancer-fighting nutrients are plant foods." -Mike Anderson.

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health; I did it for the health of the chickens.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer.

"There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried." -Percy Bysshe Shelley.

“Methionine in meat becomes homocysteine. High homocysteine levels quadruple the chance of heart attack.” -Time Magazine August 97 (A Finnish hospital study).

“The trans fatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer.” -Edward Martin, MD, Dept. of Defense Health Director (National Public Radio and CNN).

“As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.” -Cloris Leachman, actress.

“In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.” -Ruth Harrison, author.

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.” -Leonardo da Vinci.

“The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship and rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world. God disapproves of all cruelty... whether to man or beast. The occupation of slaughtering animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of the serious consideration of Christian leaders.” -Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth, daughter-in-law and son of the founder of the Salvation Army.

“Behold I have given you herb yielding seed. To you it shall be for meat.”-Genesis l:29.

Vegetarianism is a choice that people make for various reasons, perhaps health, perhaps animal rights, perhaps for humanitarian reasons, or perhaps for spiritual reasons.

I hope you’ve found these quotations useful.

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