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.
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Indian wisdom
It is often said that people have always eaten meat, as if that were a justification for continuing to do so. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from killing other people, since this has always been done.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991),Jewish-American. Writer; Nobel Prize in 1978, emigrated to the USA in 1935.
Animals have the right to live free from suffering.
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Whoever cuts the throat of a cow with a knife and remains deaf when he roars in fear, who is able to slaughter the screaming goat in cold blood and eats the bird to which he himself gave food - how far is such a person still from crime?
Pythagoras (born 582 v. Chr.-496 v. Chr.) ,Greek. philosopher and mathematician
Eating meat is a remnant of the greatest barbarism.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)
Writer
The difference between me and the smallest animal is only in appearance; in principle we are the same.
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902),Ind. there. monk
I do not ask you to spare me when you are in need, but only when you have wicked desires. Kill me to eat, but don't murder me to eat better!
John Chrysostom (born 344-407),Greek. Church writer, saint
Of all the ways of life, the hunting life is undoubtedly the most repugnant to the civilized constitution; The Noahic ban on blood seems to have originally been nothing other than the ban on the hunter's life.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804),German philosopher
After some conversations with people, you feel like petting a dog, smiling at a monkey, and tipping your hat to an elephant.
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936),Russian writer.
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965),German-French theologian and missionary doctor; Nobel Peace Prize 1952
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, founder of modern vegetarian nutritional therapy
The priest will never admit the equality of human beings and animals because he cannot do without the immortal soul, which he needs to justify the moral requirement.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939),Austrian doctor and psychologist
Humans don't just have a body to simply stuff it with all kinds of food. Humans are thinking creatures whose brain, like every other part of the body, needs to be supplied with vital nutrients.
Cinzia Chiarenza (born 1968),Overall Miss Universe en bodybuilding 2007
Can you really ask why Pythagoras abstained from eating meat? For my part, I wonder under what circumstances and in what state of mind a human being first brought himself to touch blood with his mouth, to bring his lips to the flesh of a carcass, to decorate his table with dead, decaying bodies, and then to allow himself to call food the parts that had just before been roaring and screaming, moving and living. These are certainly not lions and wolves that we eat for self-protection - on the contrary, we pay no attention to these animals at all; Rather, we slaughter harmless, tame creatures without spines or teeth that cannot harm us. For the sake of the flesh, we rob them of the sun, the light, and the lifespan that is theirs from birth. If you now want to claim that nature intended such food for you, then kill yourself what you eat, for example
Plutarch (born 45-125), Greek philosopher and writer
All creatures on earth feel like we do, all creatures strive for happiness like we do. All the creatures of the earth love, suffer and die like us, so they are works of the Almighty Creator equal to us - our brothers.
Francis of Assisi (1182-1226),Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan Order
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