Vegan Quotes

I know what it feels like to be hurt,and I don't want to cause that pain to any other person or creature. But somehow, in society, we numb ourselves in order to make money or to feel better about ourselves, such as with cosmetics or food. We say to ourselves, I'm going to use this animal. I'm going to say it doesn't have much worth so that I can allow myself to do these cruel things. And that just isn't fair.
  -Alicia Silverstone

I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a heart donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures."
  -Christian Barnard

When you see the golden arches you are probally on your way to the pearly gates.
  -William Castelli,M.D.

Put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If the baby eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
  -Harvey Diamond

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.
  -Dean Ornish, MD

Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.
  -Pamela Anderson

When I was 12, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning?
  -Marv Levy

The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'. "
  -Brigid Brophy

There were no slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden.
  -Unknown

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

We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it.. or the animals. The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the minority.. but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian.
  -Former Steelers football Player Glenn Scolnick

Whenever we cause suffering or death to any other being, we cause suffering to the Great Life Force.
  -Shik Po Chih

I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became clear.
  -Common

Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.
  -Alicia Silverstone

The person who is afraid to alter his living habits,and especially his eating and drinking habits, because he is afraid that other persons may regard him as queer, eccentric, or fanatic forgets that the ownership of his body, the responsibility for its well-being, belongs to him, not them.
  -Dr.Paul Brunton

Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was the last time I ate a killed creature .
  -Janet Barkas

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
  -George Bernard Shaw

Arson and cruelty to animals are 2 of 3 childhood warning signs regarding the potential to be a serial killer.
  -John Douglas
(Take heed, George W. You fit the profile...)
The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.
  -Michael Klaper, M.D. (author of Vegan Nutrition: Pure & Simple)

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