100 INSPIRATIONAL VEGAN QUOTES
100 INSPIRATIONAL VEGAN QUOTES
1. "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances of survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
- Albert Einstein
2. "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls, and they always say that it's because it's such a beautiful animal. You know, I think that my mother is beautiful, but I choose to have photographs of her on my wall."
- Ellen DeGeneres
3. "To get mud off your hands, use soap and water. To get blood off your hands, go vegan."
- John Sakars
4. "Now I can look at you in peace. I don't eat you anymore."
- Franz Kafka (While admiring a fish.)
5. "The best way to protect the oceans is to not eat those living in it."
- Lauren Ornelas
6. "Anything that you wouldn't want done to your companion animal is not humane."
- Earthling Ed
7. "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."
- Paul McCartney
8. "Unlike slaughterhouses, greenhouses actually do have glass walls."
- Unknown
9. "Last year, over a million people left the same suicide note... SHOPPING LIST: Milk, Eggs, Butter, Cheese, Bacon."
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
10. "Meat comes from animals who HAVE been killed". Milk and eggs come from animals who WILL be killed. The only difference is time, so if you want to help stop animal cruelty, avoid meat AND dairy and eggs."
- Unknown
11. "The day my heart spoke louder than my stomach, my life changed forever."
- Unknown
12. "The human body has no more need for cow milk than it does for horse milk, gorilla milk, or giraffe milk. Also, keep in mind that no other animal drinks the milk from another species, and no other animal drinks milk after weaning."
- Dr Michael Klaper
13. "Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gun. And after I've finished 'shooting' them, they are still around for others to enjoy."
- Jimmy Stewart
14. "Arguing that it's OK to kill animals because they don't have a soul exposes our own lack of a soul."
- Unknown
15. "Most people eat meat because most people eat meat."
- Unknown
16. "Once you come to terms with why you don't eat cats, dogs, and horses, you will begin to understand why I don't eat chickens, pigs, and cows."
- Edward Sanchez
17. "Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar."
- Bradley Millar
18. "The belief that some lives matter less than others is the root of all that is wrong in the world."
- Dr. Paul Farmer
19. "Sometimes people will say things like, 'I would go vegan, but I could never give up cheese.' So, I tell them, 'Then go vegan except for cheese.'"
- Jack Norris on the idea that if you can't do something perfectly, you shouldn't even try.
20. "Ask the scientists who test on animals why they do it, and their answer is: 'Because the animals are like us.' Ask them why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and their answer is 'Because the animals are not like us.'"
- Professor Charles R.Magel
21. "It smells like something died over in the meat department."
- A customer complaint at a grocery store
22. "If you don't like pictures of animal cruelty being posted on social media, you need to help stop the cruelty, not the pictures. You should be bothered that it's happening, not that you saw it."
- Marie Sarantakis
23. "Believe it or not, only 25 people a year die from shark attacks, but over 100 million sharks a year die from human attacks."
- E-Magazine
24. "Shark-infested waters"? You mean their home?"
- Unknown
25. "Why just say grace when you can show it?"
- Matthew Scully
26. "When you go vegan, you give nothing up. You simply stop taking that which was never yours to begin with."
- Jamison Scala
27. "If you think that being hung upside down and having your throat cut while you are still alive and bleeding to death is a 'humane' way to die, make sure to let your family and friends know that's how you'd like to go."
- Animal Rights Activist "Victoria"
28. "Imagine if you discovered that your employer was planning to kill you as soon as you reached retirement age so that they wouldn't have to pay you your retirement checks. Would learning that they planned on killing you "humanely" make it OK with you?"
- Wendy Davison
29. "Life is too short to make others shorter."
- Anonymous
30. "Meat and dairy products are like one-cent coins. They cost more to make than they are worth."
- Philip Wollen
31. "Eating meat for protein or drinking milk for calcium is like breathing cigarette smoke for oxygen."
- Unknown
32. "I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun, and personalities of the animals I worked with on the set of the movie "Babe", that by the end of the film, I was a vegetarian."
- James Cromwell
33. "We choose to eat meat and have therefore built slaughterhouses for the animals and hospitals for us."
- Akbarali Jetha
34. "Be kind to every kind."
- Henry Spira
35. "Slaughtering nearly 50 million turkeys is a weird way to show gratitude."
- Unknown
36. "We are quite literally gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers."
- Pete Singer
37. "I could never go vegan."
- Countless vegans before they went vegan.
38. "My only regret about going vegan is not doing it sooner."
- Countless vegans after they went vegan.
39. "People are more afraid of terrorists than they are of bacon, and I want to tell them, 'You do realize which one is more likely to kill you, right?'"
- Unknown
40. "Never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
- Martin Luther King Jr
41. "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that if the animals were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
- Rev. William Ralph Inge
42. "Animals were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men."
- Alice Walker
43. "I really don't want to look at dead animal parts while I'm eating."
- Woody Harrelson
44. "Animals go into the slaughterhouse alive and come out chopped into pieces, and we want to believe that something 'humane' happens along the way."
- Larry Fisher
45. "I stopped eating meat because I saw a video of slaughterhouse animals being rescued, and it suddenly hit me that they were being rescued from me!"
- Unknown
46. "Animal rights have never been about equal rights. A chicken does not need the right to vote, but perhaps should have the right to spread her wings, which is a right that is not applicable to humans."
- Gary Loewenthal
47. "A non-vegan will brake to avoid hitting a dog, call the fire department to save a cat, demand the firing of someone who kills rhinos, and boycott an entire country for their treatment of dolphins, but god forbid you ask them to try plant-based milks to save baby cows."
- Kevin Veegan
48. "Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, and overstressed birds together in a filthy waste-covered cage is not very healthy."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
49. "Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
50. "Don't believe the cartoon drawing of a happy, smiling cow on a milk carton. If the dairy cow's life was put into a book, it would be a horror novel!"
- Evolve Campaigns
51. "If we really want truth in advertising, only vegan products should be allowed to use pictures of smiling and happy animals."
- Response to attempts from the dairy industry to make it "illegal" for plant-based milks such as "almond milk" to have the word "milk" anywhere on the label.
52. "I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."
- Gandhi
53. "Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."
- Rue McClanahan
54. "Natural meat eaters will eat the eyes, the bones, the fur, and the blood of their prey... And we complain if there's a hair in our food???"
- Unknown
55. "Those who have exotic animals as pets love them, but those who allow exotic animals to live in the wild where they belong love them far more."
- Edwin Way Teale
56. "Everyone with a pet dog thinks that they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong."
- W.R. Purche
57. "Cruelty to animals is one of the top 3 warning signs that a child will grow up to be a serial killer."
- John Douglas
58. "The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
- Charles Darwin
59. "The human body has no requirement for animal flesh, and nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from "Burger King" because they couldn't get their Whopper in time."
- Dr. Michael Klaper.
60. "McDonald's has been getting criticized for the way they treat their cows... What they do is they fatten them up, and then they kill them... You know, the same thing that they do to their customers."
- Jay Leno
61. "In the same way that the meat and dairy industry sees their animals as 'livestock' that can be exploited for money, they also view their customers as 'livestock' that can be exploited for money."
-Unknown.
62. "Some say that being vegan is 'extreme', but if I try to watch a video on how non-vegan food is produced, I get 'GRAPHIC CONTENT' warnings!"
- Unknown
63. "Adding 'humane' before slaughter doesn't cancel out the slaughter. It cancels out your guilt."
- Unknown
64. "If slaughter was really 'humane', it would be the farmers sharing footage of it, and not the animal rights activists."
- Gus Duffy
65. "If three times a day someone is funding an industry that slaughters over 100 billion animals a year, then in what sense are they an 'Animal Lover'? You can't be against animal cruelty and pay for it to happen at the same time."
- Unknown
66. "Animals deserve to live in peace, not die in pieces."
- Unknown
67. "I don't feel superior to others because I'm a vegan. The truth is that I'm a vegan because I don't feel superior to others."
- Unknown
68. "What if aliens don't visit us because we've made it abundantly clear that we are hostile to other species?"
- Unknown
69. "I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes left off eating each other as they became more civilized."
- Henry David Thoreau
70. "There is as much educational benefit in studying dolphins and whales in captivity as there is in studying humans by observing prisoners in solitary confinement."
- Jacques Cousteau
71. "People eat meat and think that it will make them as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass."
- Pino Caruso
72. "After you have witnessed what goes on in slaughterhouses, you can no longer look at a piece of steak and simply think, 'Yum.'"
- Mango Wodzak
73. "People often say that humans have always killed and eaten animals. As if this is justification for continuing the practice. But according to this logic, we should also not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since that it been happening since the earliest of recorded times as well."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
74. "Animal lovin' ain't shovin' em in the oven."
- Unknown"
75. "The meat industry has the highest rate of employee injury and illness in the manufacturing sector."
- Human Rights Watch.
76. "If you get uncomfortable by all the vegan stuff that I post online, it's not me, it's your conscience."
- Unknown
77. "There is no greater wrecking ball to the planet than the industries that turn animals into food, and no single choice that we make will have a bigger or more positive impact than avoiding these industries."
- David Agranoff
78. "If you want to change the world, you must first be willing to change what you eat for breakfast."
- Unknown
79. "Someone asked me, 'How's your rabbit food?' so I said, 'Good, How's your vulture food?'
- Douglas Graham
80. "Anything you can do, I can do vegan."
- Vegan chefs around the world
81. "If God really wanted us to kill and eat animals, what would the devil want us to do to animals?"
- Unknown
82. "Fur coats used to turn heads, now they turn stomachs."
- Unknown
83. "It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other people in his life."
- Henry David Thoreau
84. "My body is a temple, not a tomb."
- Unknown
85. "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
- Leo Tolstoy
86. "If we can't tell children what happens to farm animals. Maybe what we're doing to the animals is wrong."
- Unknown
87. "Humans currently kill 2.5 billion animals a day, which means that if we killed each other at the same rate that we kill animals, the human race would be extinct in less than 4 days!"
- Unknown
88. "Vegans aren't weird, we're from the future."
- Vegans from the future
89. "The wild and cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it."
- Axel Munthe
90. "The time will come when men look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
- Leonardo Da Vinci
91. "Nobody really needs a mink coat except the mink."
- Glenda Jackson
92. "If you think that eating meat is a personal choice, you are forgetting someone."
- Unknown
93. "The only thing we NEED from animals is forgiveness."
- Unknown
94. "If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them."
- Gary Francione
95. "You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent than the meat industry."
- Unknown
96. "People get upset with vegans for pointing out the suffering, rather than getting upset with themselves for causing it."
- Jo Tyler
97. "Many farmers will claim to love their animals and want what's best for them, but it is undeniably a contradiction to claim to love someone who you intend to kill for money."
- Ed Winters
98. "World peace begins on your plate."
- Mohandas Gandhi
99. "Suffering is suffering, and a person with the capacity but not the inclination to cease suffering is morally incomplete."
- Mirko Bagaric
100. "If you can live a happy and healthy life without harming animals, then why wouldn't you?"
- Unknown
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