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- "A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children." -David Brenner
- "Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends." -George Bernard Shaw
- "How can you eat anything with eyes?" -Will Kellogg
- "Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child, as it is to the caterpillar." -Bradley Miller
- "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." -Paul McCartney
- "I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb." -Vaslav Nijinsky
- "Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore." -Franz Kafka
- "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." -Issac Bashevis Singer
- "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 (6th Century B.C.)
- "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite." -Leo Tolstoy
- "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
- "Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal." -Ingrid Newkirk
- "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." -Samuel Butler
- "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -Albert Einstein
- "The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital." -Neal Barnard, M.D.
- "We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'" -K.D. Lang
- "We pray on Sundays that we may have light/To guide our footsteps on the path we tread;/We are sick of war, we don't want to fight,/And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead." -George Bernard Shaw
- "We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could." -James Cromwell
- "A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses." -George Bernard Shaw
- "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." -Leo Tolstoy
- "I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me." -Alex Poulos
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