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.
Healthy diet
The meatless diet nourishes a person completely, prolongs his life, and cures or prevents those diseases which we attribute to the sharpness or impurity of the blood.
Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777),Swiss polymath, doctor and writer
Ethic
The ethics of nutrition aims at the purity of the hands of blood, the purity under the skin and the purity of the heart. But there can be no question of purity of heart in an unclean omnivore who has no thought or remorse about the horrific crimes against the animal world that occur daily in the Christian world, solely for the purposes of human nutrition.
Dr. phil. C. Anders Skriver (1903-1983), philosopher, theologian, author, founder of the Nozorean Order, vegan
There will come a day when people will judge the killing of an animal the same way they judge the killing of a human being today. The time will come when we condemn eating animals just as we now condemn eating our own kind, cannibalism.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519),Ital. Universal genius
Moderne Menschen
If modern humans had to kill the animals they use for food themselves, the number of plant eaters would increase immeasurably.
Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914),poet
A bridge
Veganism is the bridge to a more peaceful world.
Creating peace
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will also be battlefields.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), humanist, author (including "War and Peace")
I prefer animals
I prefer the company of animals to that of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But meanness is the prerogative of civilized man.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939),Austrian doctor and psychologist
Change the world
The world changes when we choose vegan.
You are not alone
When I turned vegetarian, everyone in England thought I was crazy. I arrived in California and there were all these people like me. It's great because you can be who you want to be.
Roger Hodgson (born 1950),Musician, singer, ex-Supertramp
Selfless motives
So when we free the animals or fight for them, we do so without need, without pressure, without fear of one day being "accused" or "punished" by the animals. We act from "pure," selfless, moral motives.
Helmut Kaplan (born 1952),Author, philosopher
Humans and animals
As long as people think that animals don't feel, animals must feel that people don't think.
Mike Gerard Tyson (born 1966),Boxing legend. Vegetarian since the end of 2009.
The silent power of nutrition
Nutrition is not the highest, but it is the ground on which the highest can flourish or perish.
Dr. Max Oskar Bircher-Benner (1867-1939), Swiss doctor
Being able to suffer
The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) Philosopher
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
A mirror of the soul
The body that is burdened with meat is afflicted with disease; a moderate way of life makes it healthier and stronger and cuts off the root of the evil. The fumes of meat obscure the light of the spirit. One can hardly love virtue if one delights in meat dishes and feasts. Our table must serve as a monument to the table of true Christians.
Basil the Great (born 329-379),Church father and archbishop of Caesarea
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