Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

- Helen And Scott Nearing

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

- Helen And Scott Nearing

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I …

- Helen And Scott Nearing

Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, …

- Helen And Scott Nearing

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

- Helen And Scott Nearing

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that pol…

- Helen And Scott Nearing

I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep…

- Helen And Scott Nearing