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“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.”

Source: The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï

“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.”

“Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.”

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Author:Franz Kafka

“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.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”

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Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

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

“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.”

“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”

“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.”

Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”

Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

“Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.”

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Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“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.”

Source: Jean-Christophe: The market-place

“Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”

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Author:Gary L. Francione

“Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.”

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Author:Gary L. Francione

“Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan”

“Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.”

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Author:Gary L. Francione

“Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice”

“So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer.”

“Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.”

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Author:Gary L. Francione

“All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property”

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Author:Gary L. Francione

“Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.”

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Author:Gary L. Francione

“Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

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

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: 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?”

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Book:An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Source: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

“There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”

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Author:Charles Darwin

“Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.”

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Book:The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Source: The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.”

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Author:Brigid Brophy

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.”

Source: Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews

“If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.”

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Author:Howard Lyman

“Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.”

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Author:T. Casey Brennan

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

“It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and kill them. Thats not what rights are about. Thats injustice. There is no counter-argument to veganism. Accept it. Apologize for the way youve been living. Make amends and move forward.”

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Author:Gary Yourofsky

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

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Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.”

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Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Violence begins with the fork.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.”

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Author:Michael Greger

“My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.”

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Author:Rynn Berry

“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, amusement, and convenience.”

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Book:Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

Source: Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

“The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.”

Source: Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food

“Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the highest environmental and spiritual values. I am sure it holds the key to a future lifestyle for a humane planetary guardianship.”

“Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.”

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Book:Emile

Source: Emile

“When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”

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Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical - all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.”

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