Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Vegetarian Diet quotes
Vegetarian Diet
35 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet."
Clint Eastwood
Actor, Director, Producer
"I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"My body will not be a tomb for other creatures."
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"We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do."
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"We are the living graves of murdered beasts."
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"We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead."
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"As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism."
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"I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat."
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"Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
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"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?"
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"Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that"
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"The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass."
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