If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill your pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. —Chinese saying More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A: Nonsense! . . . You may talk of not killing, but can you possibly avoid killing? What would you eat? Potatoes? . . . Has the potato no life? . . . You want to drink water? Examine a drop of water under a microscope and see how many millions of lives there are. You must breathe to live, yet with every breath you kill millions of creatures. Do you see any harm in that? You think you will lose your religion if you take a little fish. Such arguments are foolish. The ancient Hindus held no such ideas. —Swami Brahmananda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Q: Should we avoid eating meat, since it entails killing? —Unknown More about this quote Tags: killing vegetarianism meat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The time will come when men . . . will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. —Leonardo da Vinci More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The basic premise of vegetarianism is that humans have no business killing sentient beings for food. The person who argues, "What if I were stranded on a desert island?" or "What if I were an Eskimo?" is invariably nowhere near an abandoned isle or an Arctic igloo. —Victoria Moran More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. —William R. Inge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sir J. M. Barrie was sitting next to George Bernard Shaw at a dinner party. The vegetarian Shaw had been provided with a special dish of salad greens and dressing. Eyeing the unpleasant-looking concoction, Barrie whispered to Shaw, "Tell me, have you eaten that, or are you going to? —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. —English proverb More about this quote Tags: death eating moderation appetites Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A McDonald's "Breakfast for Under a Dollar" actually costs much more than that. You have to factor in the cost of coronary bypass surgery. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread. —Henry Miller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it. —Andy Rooney More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let's not speak in any language; let's stop for a second, and not move our arms so much. —Pablo Neruda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I dare say anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshiped. —Iris Murdoch More about this quote Tags: love worship sincerity holiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email