“The highest virtue consists in the non-killing of animals”
Swami Abhedanda, Hindu Philosopher
“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.”
⁃Gandhi
“No animals need to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.”
-Howard Lyman
“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, Author
“You have just dined. And however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals”
⁃Albert Einstein
“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul”
-Pythagoras
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight”
-Albert Schweitzer
“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”
-Cesar Chavez
“[Going Vegan] 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 Francione
