Vegetarian Quotes - Page 6

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you.

I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me.

Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell 'Boo' out the window.

Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England.

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

Everything revolves around the fork.

My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.

Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness — becomes more sensitive but less sensuous, becomes more prayerful and less sexual. And your body also starts taking on a different vibe. You become more graceful, softer, more feminine, less aggressive, more receptive.

Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?

I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be.

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it's really very easy.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.