Veganism Quotes
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“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.”
― My Point... And I Do Have One
― My Point... And I Do Have One
![Jonathan Safran Foer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1466172069i/2617._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”
― Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meals Without Meat
― Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meals Without Meat
![Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1393555704i/12080._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
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![Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat,](https://images.gr-assets.com/quotes/1549115704p2/521927.jpg)
“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”
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![Rai Aren](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1450244103i/2098536._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.”
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![Plutarch](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1467731032i/31015._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.”
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![Gary L. Francione](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388443180i/137384._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“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”
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![Gary L. Francione](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388443180i/137384._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”
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![Gary L. Francione](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388443180i/137384._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“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”
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![Jonathan Safran Foer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1466172069i/2617._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores. ”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
![Chuck Palahniuk](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391203076i/2546._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.”
― Lullaby
― Lullaby
![Romain Rolland](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1341345777i/41495._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.”
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![Thich Nhat Hanh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1428785775i/9074._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
― The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
![Jonathan Safran Foer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1466172069i/2617._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
“Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.”
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![Robert M. Sapolsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234040721i/187._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”
― Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
― Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
![John Chrysostom](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1328387246i/4589154._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.”
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![Gary L. Francione](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388443180i/137384._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.”
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![David Duchovny](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1614835728i/8331566._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You humans drink our milk and eat the eggs of the chickens and the ducks. Isn't that enough for you? Isn't it enough that we give you our children and what's meant for our children? And if not, when is it enough? All you humans do is take, take, take from the earth and its beautiful creatures, and what do you give back? Nothing. I know humans consider it a grave insult to be called an animal. Well, I would never give a human the fine distinction of being called an animal, because an animal may kill to live but an animal never lives to kill. Humans have to earn the right to be called animals again.”
― Holy Cow
― Holy Cow
![Chris Hedges](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1273339351i/15438._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.”
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![Gary L. Francione](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388443180i/137384._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”
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![Gary L. Francione](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388443180i/137384._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, classism, and all other forms of human discrimination, speciesism involves violence inflicted on members of the moral community where that infliction of violence cannot be morally justified. But that means that those of us who oppose speciesism necessarily oppose discrimination against humans. It makes no sense to say that speciesism is wrong because it is like racism (or any other form of discrimination) but that we do not have a position about racism. We do. We should be opposed to it and we should always be clear about that.”
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![Morrissey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1382472295i/2654668._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.”
― Autobiography
― Autobiography
![Gene Baur](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1365378541i/1103882._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.”
― Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food
― Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food
![Gary L. Francione](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1388443180i/137384._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them.”
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