Julia Hill
Environmental Activist
"I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel."
Vegetarian quotes
Vegetarian
167 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are."
Ali MacGraw
Actress
"Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Flesh eating is unprovoked murder."
Natalie Portman
Actress, Director, Producer
"I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values."
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"I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies."
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"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."
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"A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being."
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"The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it."
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"It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them."
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"So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle."
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"A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources."
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"Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing."
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"When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born."
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"I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me."
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"I am really good at making Top Ramen. I also love it when my mom makes vegetarian lasagna for me."
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"Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England."
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"Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian."
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"Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence"
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"I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can."
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"I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat animals, so I won't wear them."
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"I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack."
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"Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming."
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"I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian."
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"I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep."
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