"Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else."
"My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?"
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Source: The GQ&A: Dhani Harrison. Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. October 3, 2011.
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