Vegetarian Quotes - Page 4

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are members of the One Family. We must not take away the life of any creature. Indeed, we must never take away that which we cannot give. And as we cannot restore a dead creature to life, we have no right to take away its' life.

There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that are above the treshold for meeting your nutritional needs....In fact,calcium deficiency caused by an insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is not known to occur in humans.

I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.