Vegan and Vegetarian Quotes
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May all beings look at me with a friendly eye. May I do likewise, and may we all look on each other with the eyes of a friend.
Yajur Veda 36.18
Cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases, as measured in CO2 equivalent, than transportation.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Leonardo Da Vinci
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perception.
Mark Twain
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas Edison
Every animal knows more than you do.
Nez Perce Proverb
All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer
One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings,who is nonviolent to all creatures.
Bhagavad Gita
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Buddha
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 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
Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.
Rue McClanahan
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white,or women created for men.
Alice Walker
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
John Muir