Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

George Bernard Shaw

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

Ingrid Newkirk

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

Ricky Williams

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

Norman Mailer

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.

Pythagoras

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

John Robbins

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

Neal Barnard

Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did."

Joe Eszterhas

I changed my diet completely. You know, I'm from Cleveland, so I've always loved sausage and red meat and all of that stuff, so now I find myself not eating any of that, no red meat, no sausage. It's basically a vegetarian diet with a little bit of fish. I drink quarts of carrot juice, quarts of cranberry juice, endless amounts of water and nothing else.

Leo Tolstoy

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Leona Lewis

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

Leo Tolstoy

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

Leo Tolstoy

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

John Mayer

You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'

Sunil Gavaskar

Srikkanth is a vegetarian. If he swallows a fly, he will be in trouble

Rue McClanahan

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Radha Mitchell

But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

Russell Brand

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.

Pamela Anderson

I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

William Ralph Inge

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William McNamara

The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.

River Phoenix

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.