Vegan Quotes

 Pythagoras (500s BCE) – "For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."

1. Plutarch (46–120 CE) – "But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and the light..."

2. Red Indian Chief (1854) – "How can a man be possessed of kindness who, to increase his own flesh, eats the flesh of other creatures..."

3. Chief Seattle (1854)- "How can a man be possessed of kindness who, to increase his own flesh, eats the flesh of other creatures, as those possess no property who do not take care of it, so those possess no kindness who feed on flesh...." 

4. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) – "Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism...are we all not members of the animal kingdom?"

5. George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) – "Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an Oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay."

6. Albert Einstein (1879–1955) – "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegan diet"

7. Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) – "Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: They're only animals."

8. Paul McCartney (b. 1942) – "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."

9. K.D. Lang (b. 1961) – "We all love animals, so why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner'?"

10. Anonymous- "How would you feel if the day you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your violent execution?"

11. Joaquin Phoenix (b. 1974)- I think whether we’re talking about gender inequality or racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights, we’re talking about the fight against injustice. We’re talking about the fight against the belief that one nation, one people, one race, one gender, or one species has the right to dominate, control, and use and exploit another with impunity. I think that we’ve become very disconnected from the natural world. And many of us, what we’re guilty of, is an egocentric worldview, the belief that we’re the center of the universe. We go into the natural world and we plunder it for its resources. We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow, and when she gives birth, we steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. And then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal, and I think we fear the idea of personal change, because we think that we have to sacrifice something, to give something up. But human beings, at our best, are so inventive and creative and ingenious, and I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop, and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment. 

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