(73 quotes found)
“It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life is the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms: “Though shalt not kill.” We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flower, thoughtlessly stepping on a poor insect... Reverence for life comprises the whole ethic of love in its deepest and highest sense. It is the source of constant renewal for the individual and for mankind.”
Albert Schweitzer
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
Paul McCartney
“Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals...”
Henry David Thoreau
“I'm vegetarian, ... I can't do a roast. No, that's why I brought my vegetable, so I could eat something tonight.”
Pamela Anderson
“If you came to my house, chances are you'd have a vegetarian meal.”
Deborah Madison
“Fighting animal cruelty with vegetarianism is like fighting sexual abuse by being celibate.”
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“If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?”
Tom Snyder
“It is just a matter of walking in a different aisle in the grocery store and ordering vegetarian food in restaurants.”
Chris Link
“I refuse to eat anything that has suffered because I want to eat it!”
Christine Klaass Smith
