Vegan and Vegetarian quotes

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

"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."

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

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."

"Even in the worm that crawls in the Earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature,you slaughter God."

"To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime."

"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"

"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"