"In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses."
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"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."
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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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"I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness."
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"As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination."
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"In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important."
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"Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest."
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"If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner"
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"I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals."
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"The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism."
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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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"I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism."
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"Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere."
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"The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner"
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"It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery."
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"Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life."
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"For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat."
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"vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism."
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"By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!"
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"A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare."
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