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100 INSPIRATIONAL VEGAN QUOTES

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1. "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

2. "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

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 not to eat those living in it."
- Lauren Ornelas

6. "Anything that you wouldn't want done to your pet 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. "Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics."
- Peter Singer

12. "The human body has no more need for cow milk than it does for horse milk, gorilla milk, or giraffe milk."
- Dr Michael Klaper

13. "Animals give me more pleasure through the view-finder of a camera than they ever did in the cross-hairs 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 harm animals because they don't have souls 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, RD

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, over 100 million sharks die at the hands of humans each year, while only 25 people a year die from shark attacks."
- E Magazine

24. "Shark infested waters"? You mean their home?"
- Unknown

25. "Why does "Sea World" have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fish sandwich and I just realized, "Oh my God, I could be eating a slow learner!"
- Lynda Montgomery

26. "When you go vegan you give nothing up. You simply stop taking that which was never yours to begin with."
- Jamison Scala

27. "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

28. "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"

29. "Life is too short to make others shorter."
- Anonymous

30. "When people say, "You should care about humans as much as you do about animals!" I'm like, "Well, I do, I don't kill and eat humans either!"
- Unknown

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. "When I was poor and living in a garage in Kansas, I began to draw the mice who scampered over my desk, and that is how "Mickey Mouse" was born."
- Walt Disney

34. "Be kind to every kind."
- Henry Spira

35. "Which is heavier, 200 pounds of bricks or 200 pounds of feathers? The answer is the feathers. Because if you try to carry 200 pounds of feathers, you will also have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds."
- 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."
- Almost every vegan before they went vegan.

38. "My only regret about going vegan is that I didn't do it sooner."
- Almost every vegan 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. "If you want to stop animal abuse, the most powerful petition that you can sign is the one that says... "I'm Vegan"
- Unknown

43. "Being vegan is so hard! Today I had to choose between 20 different vegan ice cream flavors at the grocery store and I almost froze to death!"
- Unknown.

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 has 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 over-stressed 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. "To get a feel for fur, simply slam your fingers in a car door and you will experience a small fraction of the pain that fur-bearing animals feel when they get caught in the sharp metal fur traps."
- Eckhoff, Vickery

53. "Fur coats used to turn heads, now they turn stomachs."
- Rue McClanahan

54. "Natural meat eaters will eat the eyes, the bones, and the blood of their prey... And we complain if there's a hair in our food???"
- Unknown

55. "Those who wish to 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. "Every animal, every plant, and every insect is in some way contributing to the ecological well-being of the plant. But we humans (who claim to be the most intelligent species of all) are the only species not doing that."
- Moby

59. "The human body has absolutely 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. "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

62. "Some say that being vegan is "extreme", but when I try to watch a video on how non-vegan food is produced, I get "GRAPHIC CONTENT" warnings!"
- Unknown

63. "I really don't want to look at dead animal parts while I'm eating."
- Woody Harrelson

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 3 times a day someone is funding an industry which 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 happen at the same time.
- Unknown

66. "Animals deserve to live in peace, not die in pieces."
- Unknown

67. "People don't want to think about the fact that there's a victim involved when they eat meat, so they try to make themselves out to be the victim by saying that if they stopped eating meat, they could never eat bacon again."
- 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. "Don't refuse with your eyes what the animals endure with their bodies."
-Shaun Monson while talking about the difficulty of watching the horrific footage in his documentary "Earthlings".

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 on-line, it's not me, it's your conscious."
- 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 first must be willing to change what you eat for breakfast"
- Unknown

79. "Someone jokingly asked me, "How's your rabbit food?" so I said, "Good, How's your vulture food?"
- Douglas Graham (Author of "The 80/10/10 Diet")

80. "Anything you can do, I can do vegan."
- Vegan chefs around the world

81. "We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, convenience, and amusement."
- Gary L. Francione

82. "The question is not, can they reason? nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?"
- Jeremy Bentham

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. "When you feel the suffering of every living thing in your own heart, that is consciousness."
- Bhagavad Gita

87. "If humans killed each other at the same rate that we kill animals the human race would be extinct in only 17 days!"
- Unknown

88. "Vegans aren't weird, they're from the future."
- Unknown."

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. "No one in the world needs a rhino horn, except a rhino."
- Unknown

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. "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man how to fish and we'll have a fishless ocean by 2050."
- Unknown

95. "World Peace begins on your plate."
- Mohandas Gandhi

96. "If you don't want to be imprisoned, tortured, and killed, you shouldn't condone it happening to anyone, be they human or not."
- Moby

97. "Suffering is suffering, and a person with the capacity but not the inclination to cease suffering is morally incomplete."
- Mirko Bagaric

98. "Meat and dairy products are like one cent coins. They cost more to make than they are worth."
- Philip Wollen

99. "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

100. "If you can live a happy and healthy life without harming animals, then why wouldn't you?"
- Unknown

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