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"We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also." -Albert Schweitzer (missionary and statesman, Nobel 1952)
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"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different." Hippocrates (philosopher)
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"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." Thomas Edison (inventor)
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"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery." Charles Darwin
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"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." -Pythagoras, mathematician
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"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist
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"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery." -Charles Darwin
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"Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story." Mary Tyler Moore (actress)
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I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better -Bob Barker
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"I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race." Ali McGraw (actress)
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"I grew up in cattle country -- that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health." K.D. Lang (musician)
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During my medical education at the University of Basel I found vivisection horrible, barbarous, and above all unnecessary." Carl G. Jung (psychologist)
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"How can you eat anything with eyes?" Will Kellogg (creator "Kellogg's Corn Flakes")
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"There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two wings, but they are people like unto you." The Koran (sacred scripture of Islam)
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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American. Peter Seeger
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"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own." Robert Louis Stevenson (novelist and poet)
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research." George Bernard Shaw (playwright, Nobel 1925)
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"To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime." Romain Rolland, author, Nobel Prize 1915
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"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Nobel Prize 1925
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"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham, philosopher
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. -Paul McCartney
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I am very healthy. I eat vegetarian food, am partly vegan, avoid all chemicals and additives and take vitamins. Uri Geller
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"In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought."
Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978
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"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
- Albert Einstein Letter to 'Vegetarian Watch-Tower', 27 December 1930
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"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921
"Buddhism does not necessarily prohibit the eating of meat, but it does say that animals should not be killed for food" pg 20 chptr 2 "Freedom In Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama" (Some health food stores sell meat claiming that the animal was not killed for food. What was it killed for? it's hide? I tend to doubt their claims, and do not eat any meat anyway. Some of the people of Tibet, who live high in the mountains, where there is little food, have had to resort to eating animals who died, not by the cause of man)
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"Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?" Plutarch (essayist and biographer)
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"It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats." William Penn (Quaker colonizer of America)
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ALBERT EINSTEIN"Nothing will benefit human health, and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth, as much as the evolution to a Vegetarian Diet" -ALBERT EINSTEIN "Bite-Size Einstein" pg 10 by Mayer & Holms QC16.E5A25
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN"When about 16 Years of Age, I happen'd to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity...."
-BEN FRANKLIN Chapter 1 "The Autobiography" E302.6F7A2
ONLINE VERSION also available (now more directly at) http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/chapt1/index.html a bit further than 3/4 of the page down. Select Chapter 1, and search for word "Tryon" or "vegetable" (find option will not work on this page with some browsers, you may have to look visually). Note: The word "Flesh" is capitalized in the Vintage Press version, but not in some other publications.
WAS FRANKLIN REALLY A VEGETARIAN? HOW LONG? http://www.archure.net/salus/franklinveg.html
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"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President
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"Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President
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"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist
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"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." -Leo Tolstoy
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"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty."
Leo Tolstoy author
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"I cannot fish without failing a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished."
Henry David Thoreau, author
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"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?" -George Bernard Shaw
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"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Ganhdi
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"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
Mahatma Gandhi, statesman and philosopher
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"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."
Mark Twain, author
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"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas Edison, inventor
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Vegetarian Quotes
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