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#1

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: attributed-no-source, conformity, normal, unsourced

420 likes

#2

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

tags: fish, vegetarianism

701 likes

#3

“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

tags: animals, morality, vegetarianism

1050 likes

#4

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: animals, attributed-no-source, friends, humor, vegetarianism

3098 likes

#5

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

tags: animals, beatles, character, man, vegetarianism

1030 likes

#6

“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

tags: human, temperament, vegetarianism

503 likes

#7

“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

tags: animal-rights, animals, murder, vegetarianism

779 likes

#8

“If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, My Point... And I Do Have One

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, animal-testing, animal-welfare, animals, cosmetics, ethics, prisoners, vegan, veganism

1184 likes

#9

“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”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: abolitionist, exploitation, moral-imperative, moral-obligation, nonviolence, slavery, speciesism, veganism

311 likes

#10

“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”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: abolitionist, animals, inspirational-quotes, justice, nonviolence, peace-movement, peace-on-earth, rights, veganism

204 likes

#11

“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”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: exploitation, justice, moral-imperative, moral-obligation, nonviolence, rights, sentience, speciesism, veganism

142 likes

#12

“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
― Pythagoras

tags: compassion, love, peace, vegan, vegetarian

688 likes

#13

“Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: animal-rights, vegan, vegetarian

440 likes

#14

“Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. ”
― Cesar Chavez

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, kindness-to-animals, vegan

177 likes

#15

“Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.”
― Cesar Chavez

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-kindness, animal-rights, nonviolent, vegan

169 likes

#16

“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: carnist, flesh, meat, meat-is-murder, vegan, vegetarianism

170 likes

#17

“To become vegetarian is to step towards the stream which leads to nirvana.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: life, love, misattributed, nature, vegan-vegetarian

132 likes

#18

“People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It’s wrong. They’re packed body to body, and can’t escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It’s wrong. They feel their slaughters. It’s wrong, and people know it’s wrong. They don’t have to be convinced. They just have to act differently. I’m not better than anyone, and I’m not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what’s right. I’m trying to convince them to live by their own.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: animal-rights, animals, slaughter, veganism, vegetarian

87 likes

#19

“A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

tags: animal-rights, food, humans, life, speciesism, starving, vegan

73 likes

#20

“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.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

tags: buddhism, veganism, vegetarianism

102 likes

#21

“We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: albert-scheweitzer, animal-rights, animals, compassion

303 likes

#22

“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: life

78 likes

#23

“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality

1170 likes

#24

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Emmanuel Kant

tags: animal-rights, cruelty, judge, morality, treatment

997 likes

#25

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: animal-rights

459 likes

#26

“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 Ralph Inge

79 likes

#27

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation

tags: animal-rights, moral, vegetarian

524 likes

#28

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, animal-welfare, animals

204 likes

#29

“If you don’t like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.”
― Johnny Depp

34 likes

#30

“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

tags: ecology, vegan, vegetarian

118 likes

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