Quotes on Veganism

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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.

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

Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is _x000D_ unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.