"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
— George Bernard Shaw

"You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway."
— Scott Adams

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. "
— Paul McCartney

"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."
— Albert Einstein

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
— Albert Schweitzer

"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. And to act so is immoral."
— Leo Tolstoy

"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."
— Paul McCartney

"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."
— Thomas A. Edison

"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
— George Bernard Shaw

"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."
— Harvey Diamond

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. "
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
— Albert Schweitzer

"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more."
— Franz Kafka

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox."
— Russell Brand (My Booky Wook)

"Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Flesh eating is unprovoked murder."
— Benjamin Franklin

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital."
— Neal D. Barnard

""If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian."
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— Linda McCartney (Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meatless Meals)

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet."
— Thich Nhat Hanh (The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology)

"The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk."
— Michael Klaper

"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
— George Bernard Shaw

"I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals)

"It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion."
— William Inge

"The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife."
— William Blake

"[Der] ziellose Blick eines Menschen, der sich ausschließlich von Gemüse ernährt."
— Isabel Allende (La casa de los espíritus)

"We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at the center of our plates. This doesn't require that we pretend we are going to have a collective agreement. However strong our intuitions are about what's right for us personally and even about what's right for others, we all know in advance that our positions will clash with those of our neighbors. What do we do with that most inevitable reality? Drop the conversation, or find a way to reframe it?"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals)