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Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce? -- Pete Burns
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. -- William Ralph Inge
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. -- River Phoenix
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures. -- Leonardo da Vinci
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. -- George Bernard Shaw
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. -- Paul McCartney
The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life. -- Rajneesh
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism. -- George Bernard Shaw
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. -- Marty Feldman
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important. -- Dalai Lama
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. -- Albert Einstein
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. -- Henry David Thoreau
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... -- Dalai Lama
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life -- Nhat Hanh
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them. -- Sathya Sai Baba
It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool. -- Tristram Stuart
Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to eat makes your consciousness heavy, insensitive; and you need a very sensitive consciousness - very light, very loving, very compassionate. It is difficult for a non-vegetarian to be compassionate; and without being compassionate and loving you will be hindering your own progress. -- Rajneesh
Vegetarianism is a good idea. -- Jerry Springer
Vegetarianism is a healthier diet. -- Deepak Chopra
Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet. -- Amy Smart
Vegetarianism is the cure for 99% of the world's problems. Think about it... -- Casey Kasem
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat. -- Carol J. Adams
Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity. -- Thomas Berry
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. -- Rajneesh
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. -- Leo Tolstoy
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. -- Bill Griffith
Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a spotted cow but not morally wrong to eat meat from a non-spotted cow. -- Gary L. Francione
Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did." -- Neal Barnard
The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don't have a choice but to go vegan. -- Gary L. Francione
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible. -- Rajneesh
Vegetarianism preserves live, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit. -- Gabriel Cousens
If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty. -- Paul McCartney
We should propagate the values of vegetarianism. -- Morarji Desai
I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society. -- Bernhard Goetz
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism. -- Nicholas Kristof
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. -- Anton Chekhov
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. -- Morarji Desai
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program. -- Bernhard Goetz
There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. -- Dean Inge
I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism. -- Laura Mennell
India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.' -- Neel Mukherjee
You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues. -- Ian Mckellen
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation. -- Laura Mennell
Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me. -- Neel Mukherjee
vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism. -- Leo Tolstoy
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism. -- Norman Mailer
I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years. -- Quentin S. Crisp
Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism. -- Irvine Welsh
in eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder. -- Benjamin Franklin
..discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher... -- George Bernard Shaw
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. -- George Bernard Shaw
Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God. -- James Marcus
Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet. -- Dave Stroud
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment. -- Leo Tolstoy
I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years. -- Rajneesh
Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever? -- Julia Child
It's true. Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide. -- Bill Bailey
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious. -- Ramana Maharshi
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. -- Russell Brand
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program. -- Bernhard Goetz
Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health. -- Alec Baldwin
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage -- Mahatma Gandhi

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