Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Animal Quotes, Vegetarianism Quotes

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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To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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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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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more

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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

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vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

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It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

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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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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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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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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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It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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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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Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

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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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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

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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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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

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