Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion Designer, Photographer
"In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish."
Meat Eating quotes
Meat Eating
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus [holymen]; it does not consist of meat... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook of meat myself, but... meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit meat-eating in any form, in any manner and in any place; it is unconditionally prohibited for all."
Jane Goodall
Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
"The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one."
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