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simtravel · Vegan Talk Visitor Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 7

Hey everyone!
Let's post pro vegan quotes here, one post one quote.
Here i go:

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

Leonardo da Vinci (Renaissance painter, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher, 1452 - 1519)

oilin924 · Vegan Talk Visitor Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 8

Great idea! :D

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (Romantic poet, 1792 -1827)

Fermont553 · Posted: Feb 7, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject:

How can you eat anything with eyes?
Will Kellogg (American cereal pioneer, 1860 - 1951)

jomanda · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 3

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

Robert Louis Stevenson (novelist and poet, 1850 - 1894)

jenisv · Posted: Feb 7, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject:

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham (philosopher, 1748 -1832)

Sasagua · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

~ Henry David Thoreau (author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, 1817 - 1862)

onyxch · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 5

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw (Nobel Prize-winning playwright, 1856 - 1950)

Roombor · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer (Nobel Prize-winning physician, missionary and statesman, 1875 - 1965)

lunarflowermaiden · Advanced Vegan Talker Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 84

"As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. 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)

Azzaro Bork · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 3

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.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Nobel Prize-winning novelist, 1904 - 1991)

plantino · Vegan Talk Visitor Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 7

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

Carolina Thunderbird · Posted: Feb 10, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject:

My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid milk.

Rynn Berry (author of Food for the Gods: Vegetarianism & the World's Religions)

andergam · Vegan Talk Visitor Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 7

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"

k.d. lang (musician)

gregorton · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 4

Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

David Stroud (of the American Meat Institute)

Guroon · Posted: Feb 12, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.

Michael Klaper, M.D. (author of Vegan Nutrition: Pure & Simple)

AndyBa · Lord of the posts Joined: 27 May 2001 Posts: 670

Lol! Did you take it from my sig?

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The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. ~Michael Klaper, M.D., author of Vegan Nutrition: Pure & Simple

bratt2z · Vegan Talk Visitor Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 9

Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful. Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.

Alicia Silverstone (actress)

villi007 · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.
Mahatma Gandhi (Indian social and spiritual leader, 1869 - 1948)

simtravel · Vegan Talk Visitor Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 7

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

River Phoenix (actor, 1970 - 1993)

oilin924 · Vegan Talk Visitor Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 8

If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.

Moby (musician)

Fermont553 · Posted: Feb 17, 2007 1:33 am Post subject:

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat. I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.

Kate Bush (musician)

jomanda · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 3

Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

jenisv · Posted: Feb 23, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject:

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 (trailblazing physicist, 1879 -1955)

Sasagua · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

Ben Franklin

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

onyxch · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 5

Isaac B. Singer

A dead cow or sheep lying in the pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butchers stall passes as food.

Roombor · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became clear.

Common (hip-hop musician)

Azzaro Bork · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 3

What about pro activism quotes?

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell, in "Marriage and Morals", 1929

plantino · Vegan Talk Visitor Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 7

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

Carolina Thunderbird · Posted: Apr 3, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

andergam · Vegan Talk Visitor Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 7

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead