13_Celebated quotes from famous vegetarians

“The animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends.”

San Fransisco de Asis (Italian religious founder of the Franciscan order)

“It is incredible and embarrassing that neither preachers nor moralists raise their voice
against the barbaric custom of assassinating animals and eating them.”
Voltaire (French writer and philosopher)

“If the slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian.”

Paul McCartney (British singer)

“Nothing would benefit human health more than the evolution towards a vegetarian
diet.”
Albert Einstein (American physicist of German origin)

“In my mind, the life of a pig is no less appreciable than that of a human.”
Mahatma Gandhi (Hindu nationalist leader)

“If only we could feel the suffering of animals, we would not think twice; we would
become vegetarian.”
Kim Bassinger (American actress)

“The food of advanced human kind is based on fruit and roots.”

Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish writer)

“I am without a doubt that the cessation of meat eating will form a part of human
destiny in its gradual development.”
Henry David Thoreau (American ‘transcendentalist’ writer)

“I think that the friendship between man and his dog would not last long if man were
to eat the dog’s flesh.”
Evelyn Waugh (English novelist)

“We can only eat meat when we do not think about the cruel, sinful thing that must be
done to obtain it.”
Rabindranath Tagore (Hindu poet)

“A vegetarian diet gives us peaceful and amorous energy, not only to our body but
also, and above all, to our soul.”
Pythagorous (Greek mathematician and philosopher)

“People frequently say that humans have always eaten meat. According to this logic,
we should also not try to avoid killing each other, as people have always done so.”
Isaac Bashevis (American writer)

“The criminals, fighters, and general good-for-nothings are used to eating abundant
meat so as to harden their consciousness and be even more efficient in their
abominable actions.”
Jean Jaques Rousseau (Swiss philosopher)
“Mankind can live by consuming only vegetables; however, the whole of nature is not
enough to satisfy his recklessness and the absurd variety of his appetite.”
George Luis Leclerc (French naturalist)

“If a person aspires to live a more harmonious and spiritual life, the first decision to
be taken should be to abstain from killing and eating animals.”
Leon Tolstoy (Russian novelist)

“Upon having given up eating meat for over a year now, my new habits have given
me joy and pleasure. Also, I do believe that I have better developed my intellectual
capacity.”
Lucio Anneo Séneca (Latin poet and philosopher)

“There will only be a truly human culture when not only the eating of humans, but
also the eating of all types of meats will be seen as cannibalism.”
Wilhelm Bush (German painter and poet)

“The animals exist for their own reason; they were not made for humans in the same
way that the Negro was not made for the white man or women made for men.”
Alice Walter (American writer)

“The true moral exam for humanity is to be found in his attitude to the animals. In this
respect, mankind has suffered a great defeat, one so fundamental that all other failures
stem from this.”
Milan Kundera (Czech writer)

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“When mankind has compassion for all living creatures, only then will he be noble.”

“The destiny of all animals is firmly rooted in the destiny of mankind.”

Émile Zola (French writer)

“Humankind should enjoy their own lives, not take others.”

Erigid Brophy (Irish writer)

“Do not destroy the work of God due to the need for food.” - Romanos XIV 20 -

“Eating meat makes man hard and brutish. Eating fruit spiritualises him.”
Count Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian writer)

“Against the human barbarity which appropriates, humiliates and tortures his inferior
companions.”

“There will come a day when mankind will see the murder of the animals in the same
light as he presently do his own kind.”

“The question is not whether they can think and speak, but whether they can feel?”
Jeremy Bentham

Maxims

The animals are my friends, and I do not eat my friends.

“Whilst there exists slaughterhouses, there will exist battlefields.”

León Tolstoy