In a world where more and more people are seeking ways to question and consciously shape their lifestyles, the vegan lifestyle has gained increasing significance in recent years. This collection of quotes offers a fascinating and inspiring journey through the thoughts and perspectives of activists, philosophers, artists, and scientists who engage with the ethical, ecological, and health aspects of a plant-based diet. The quotes reflect the diverse reasons why more and more people are making the transition to a plant-based diet and the positive impact this can have on our planet, animals, and ourselves. May this collection inspire reflection on our own beliefs and perhaps even encourage change.
Dogmas
Humanity does not allow itself to be deprived of any error that benefits it.
Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863),author
Justice for animals
Animals are not manufactured for our use. One owes animals not mercy, but justice.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860),German philosopher
The state of a nation
The size and moral progress of a nation can be measured by how it treats animals.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948),leader of the Indian Independence movement, Nobel Prize 1913
Slaughterhouses and War
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Writer
Small steps!
If you can't kill people - good. If you can't kill cattle or birds - even better; no fish or insects - even better!
Endeavour to get as far as you can. Don't worry about what is possible and what is not. Do what you can with your strength - that's what matters.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), humanist, author (including "War and Peace")
Vegan for Compassion
I am vegan because I don’t want animals to suffer for me.
James Cameron (born 1954)
Director
Individuals
Animals are not resources, they are individuals.
Beginner
Like almost all of my medical colleagues, I was a layperson when it came to nutrition. I am almost ashamed of a medicine that I learned without experiencing a hint of the nutritional knowledge on which the simplest and most effective prevention of most of today's diseases could be based.
Michael Lukas Moeller (1937-2002),Prof. Dr. med. Psychoanalyst and author
Menu
The menu - the bloodiest page we write.
Karlheinz Deschner (1924-2014),Writer, philosopher, Dr. Phil, church critic.
Feeling hearts
The animal has a feeling heart like you, The animal has joy and pain like you, The animal has a tendency to strive like you, The animal has a right to live like you.
Peter Rosegger (1843-1918),writer
Little lamb
I could not strike down an ox, slaughter a sheep, especially a lamb, or wring the neck of a fowl. If I cannot do this without hurting my best feelings, I refuse to let another person do it for me with injury to their feelings. If there were no other reason in favour of our union, this one would be sufficient to determine me to adopt the meatless diet. Sir Isaac Pitman to the Manchester Vegetarian Society in 1875.
Sir Isaac Pitman (1813-1897), inventor of the English shorthand
They feel like us
All creatures on earth feel like we do, all creatures strive for happiness like we do. All the creatures of the earth love, suffer and die like us, so they are works of the Almighty Creator equal to us - our brothers.
Francis of Assisi (1182-1226),Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan Order
1000 Gardeners
Where one hunter lives there can live ten shepherds, a hundred farmers and a thousand gardeners.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), founder of scientific geography
Unity
Wherever an animal is forced into human service, the suffering it endures concerns us all.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965),German-French theologian and missionary doctor; Nobel Peace Prize 1952
Animal rights activists
Vegetarians are the most consistent animal rights activists.
Mike Gerard Tyson (born 1966),Boxing legend. Vegetarian since the end of 2009.
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