Top 22 Vegetarianism Ethics Quotes
#1. There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
Orson Scott Card
#2. While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw
#3. It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard.
Paul Brunton
#4. Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
Anne Lamott
#5. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. 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
#8. Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer
#10. Anyone who suggests that there is a perfect symbiosis between the farmers' interest and the animals' is probably trying to sell you something (and it's not made of tofu)
Jonathan Safran Foer
#11. Killed a policeman? How Vegetarian! Well, I suppose it was, so long as they didn't eat him.
G.K. Chesterton
#12. We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and reared dogs for food, we would probably reverse our order of preference. Are we turning persons into bacon?
Peter Singer
#13. 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 A. Edison
#14. The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#15. The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!
William J. Clinton
#16. Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
#17. We're bein cut asunder, Lugh an me.
Bit
By bit.
An it makes me think.
It makes me wonder.
Is this how he feels when he sees me with Jack? Do I look at Jack the way Lugh looks at Maev?
Helpess.
Throat bared.
Hopeless.
Moira Young
#18. I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing - and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.
Jackson Pollock
#19. Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#20. Once you come to terms with why you don't eat cats, dogs, monkeys, and dolphins, you will begin to understand why I don't eat cows, pigs, chickens, and lambs.
Edward Sanchez
#22. I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.
Melissa Etheridge
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