"To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana."
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"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."
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"Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs..."
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"We are the living graves of murdered beasts."
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"Man is the only animal that can be bored."
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"For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh."
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"Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher."
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"Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?"
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"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more."
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"Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast."
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"Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world."
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"My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity."
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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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"Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent."
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"Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God."
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"To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat."
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"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
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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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"Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox."
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"The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile."
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