Meat quotes
499 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension."
"It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since."
"I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages."
"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."
"A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle."
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"I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now."
"There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink."
"The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us."
"I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat."
"Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him."
"The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten."
"I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."
"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."
"Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors."
"Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled."
"It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat."
"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other."
"I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple"
"Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat."
"The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative."
"I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can."
"Negative, I am a meat popsicle."
"Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen."
"The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all."
"To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat."
