Quotes about vegetarianism. Sayings and aphorisms about vegetarianism.

The Great Ones on Vegetarianism

Albert Einstein: “In my opinion, the vegetarian lifestyle, due to its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would have the most beneficial effect on the majority of mankind.”

George Bernard Shaw: “Animals are my friends...and I don’t eat my friends. It's horrible! Not only by the suffering and death of animals, but by the fact that man needlessly suppresses the highest spiritual treasure in himself - sympathy and compassion for living beings like himself, trampling on his own feelings, becoming cruel.”

Leo Tolstoy: “While we are the living graves of killed animals, how can we hope for any improvement in living conditions on earth?”

The famous ancient mathematician Pythagoras said: “My brothers, do not defile your body with sinful food. We have wheat, we have apples, under the weight of which the branches of apple trees bend, and grapes, pouring on the vines. There are fragrant herbs and vegetables that can be cooked over a fire, and we are not denied milk and honey that smells like thyme. The earth generously gives us its treasures, providing pure food, and invites us to a feast that is not marred by bloodshed; only animals satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not all of them, because horses, cows and sheep feed on grass.”

In a treatise entitled On the Eating of Flesh, the Roman historian Plutarch writes: “Is it worth asking why Pythagoras gave up meat? Personally, I am more interested in what state of mind was in the person who first touched bloody flesh with his lips and tasted carrion, what circumstances forced him to set his tables with dishes from decomposed carcasses and call food what just recently mooed and bleated, moved and breathed... Why - then we do not eat lions and wolves, which pose a threat to our lives, but instead kill harmless, submissive creatures that cannot cause us any harm, because they have neither claws nor fangs. For the sake of a piece of meat, we deprive them of sun, light and life, to which they have the same right as we do.”

Plutarch then challenges all who eat meat : “If you are so sure that animals are intended for your food, then first kill the creature whose meat you want to eat. But kill him with your own hands or teeth, without resorting to a knife, club or ax.”

The English poet Shelley was also a convinced vegetarian. In his essay “In Defense of Natural Nutrition,” he wrote: “Let the proponent of meat-eating prove his convictions by action. Let him, following the advice of Plutarch, tear apart a living lamb with his teeth and, gnawing into its entrails, quench his thirst with flowing blood... then, and only then, will he be consistent.”

George Bernard Shaw accused people of hypocrisy: “When a man wants to kill a tiger, it is called sport, and when a tiger wants to kill a man, it is called cruelty.”

Leo Tolstoy wrote that by killing animals for food, “a person suppresses the highest spiritual feelings in himself - compassion and pity for other living beings like him - and, by overstepping himself, hardens his heart.” He also warned: “How can we hope for peace and prosperity on earth if our bodies are living graves in which slaughtered animals are buried?”

2600 years ago Pythagoras said: “Those who kill animals in order to eat their flesh can, without hesitation, destroy their own kind.” We are afraid of enemy guns, bombs and missiles, but we calmly close our eyes to the mortal pain and horror experienced by the one and a half billion cows, sheep and pigs and 22.5 billion birds killed annually for our food. The amount of fish caught each year is in the trillions, not to mention the tens of millions of animals tortured in “torture camps”—medical and scientific laboratories—and animals killed for their fur, skin, or just for the fun of hunting. Who would dare deny that such atrocities harden our hearts?

Leonardo da Vinci wrote : “Truly, man is the king of beasts, for in his cruelty he far surpasses them. We live at the cost of the lives of others. Our bodies are walking cemeteries!” And further: “The time will come when people will look at the killer of an animal in the same way as they now look at the killer of a person.”

Mahatma Gandhi believed that ethical principles were a stronger reason for becoming a vegetarian than concern for one's own health. “I am convinced,” he wrote, “that if we strive for spiritual improvement, we must stop killing our lesser brothers to satisfy our physical needs.” He also owns the saying: “The greatness of a country and its moral state can be judged by the way it treats animals.”

The famous dietician, Dr. J. H. Callog , a vegetarian, once said before dinner: “How wonderful it is to eat food that we cannot say is our fault.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson You just ate a piece of meat for lunch, and no matter what tactful distance the slaughterhouse is from your home, even if it is many kilometers outside the city - you are involved in a crime!

Paul McCartney: “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would become a vegetarian.”

Baron Cuvier writes : “The natural food of man, judging by his structure, consists of fruits, roots and vegetables,”

Professor Ray says: "Certainly man was never created as a predatory creature."

George Bernard Shaw: “ It is monstrous to eat the scorched corpses of animals - it is cannibalism without the most delicious dish.”

Sir Richard Owen, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, writes: “The anthropoids and all quadrupeds obtain their food from fruits, grains and other succulent plant tissues, and there is a direct analogy between the structure of these animals and man, clearly demonstrating his herbivorous nature.”

Another member of the Royal Society, Professor William Lawrence, writes: “The teeth of man do not bear the slightest resemblance to the teeth of carnivorous animals; and whether we consider the teeth, jaws, or digestive organs, their structure in man closely resembles their structure in herbivorous animals.”

Dr. Spencer Thompson also notes: “No physiologist would argue that a person should live on a vegetarian diet,”

Seneca: Even bloodless food is enough for a man; and where slaughter serves pleasure, cruelty becomes a habit.

And Dr. Sylvester Graham writes: “Comparative anatomy confirms that man is by nature a herbivorous creature, feeding on fruits, seeds and mealy plants.”

This is what God said to Adam in the Garden of Eden: “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed that is on all the earth, and every tree that has fruit yielding seed; it shall be for you to eat.”

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There are many reasons that encourage people to give up meat. It is enough for someone to read these lines...

“You call yourself the king of nature - but it would be more accurate to call you the king of predators, since you surpass them in cruelty! - after all, you care about them only so that at any moment they can give you their cubs in order to please your tongue. For this reason, you are ready to become a grave for animals... Doesn’t nature give you plenty of simple vegetarian food to make you happy?”

Leonardo da Vinci

“I brainwashed the youth, showing them the wrong path. I want to apologize to children around the world for helping a company that makes millions from killing animals."

Jeffrey Giuliano, actor who played the role of Ronald McDonald

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would become vegetarian. We feel calmer and understand animals better knowing that we are not involved in their pain."

Linda McCartney

“Nothing will help human health and the preservation of life on Earth more than the spread of vegetarianism”

Albert Einstein

“If someone wants to save the planet, then all that is needed is to stop eating meat. This is the most important thing you can do in life. If you think about it, it's just incredible! Vegetarianism solves so many problems in one fell swoop: poor ecology, hunger, cruelty.”

Paul McCartney

“Thousands of people who profess to “love” animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of those unfortunate creatures who have been robbed of everything, who have endured terrible suffering and the nightmare of the slaughterhouse.”

Jane Goodall, Ph.D., primate scientist

“I became a vegetarian at the age of sixty. Meat-eating is unjustified murder."

Benjamin Franklin

“If a person is serious and sincere in the search for morality, then the first thing he should turn away from is meat-eating... Vegetarianism is considered a criterion by which one can recognize how serious and sincere a person’s desire for perfection is.”

Lev Tolstoy

“My brothers, do not defile your body with sinful food. We have wheat, we have apples, under the weight of which the branches of apple trees bend, and grapes, pouring on the vines. There are fragrant herbs and vegetables that can be cooked over a fire, and we are not denied milk and honey that smells like thyme. The earth generously gives us its treasures, providing pure food, and invites us to a feast that is not marred by bloodshed; only animals satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not all of them... Those who kill animals in order to eat their flesh can, without hesitation, destroy their own kind.”

Pythagoras

“Some people believe that animals do not have souls because they want to eat their flesh, but in fact animals have souls. The animal eats and you eat; the animal is sleeping and you are sleeping; the animal has sex and you have sex; the animal defends itself, and you defend yourself; the animal has children and you have children; he has a place to live, and you have a place to live. If you cut an animal’s body, blood will come out, if you cut your body, blood will also come out... Why then do you deny another common property - the presence of a soul?”

Srila Prabhupada, spiritual master

Compare the physiological characteristics of animals and humans.

Predators: no pores on the skin, the body cools through the tongue; there are no flat back teeth necessary for chewing food; sharp incisors designed for tearing meat; the length of the gastrointestinal tract is only 3 times the length of the animal’s body - so that wastes and toxins are quickly eliminated from the body; strong hydrochloric acid in the stomach, necessary for the digestion of bones and muscles.

Herbivores: many pores on the skin for sweating; flat back teeth for chewing food; blunt incisors; the length of the gastrointestinal tract is 6-10 times greater than the length of the body, which makes it difficult to cleanse the body of toxins; hydrochloric acid in the stomach is 10 times weaker than in carnivores.

And the man? Which group do you belong to? If nature provides everything this way, why do we eat meat? Why harm your own body?

Why do we eat meat?

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Quotes and aphorisms about vegetarianism

Bloodless food is enough for a man; and where slaughter serves pleasure, cruelty becomes a habit. Seneca

It is monstrous to eat the scorched corpses of animals - after all, this is cannibalism without the most delicious dish. George Bernard Shaw

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would become a vegetarian. Paul McCartney

I'm not a vegetarian, but I do eat vegetarian animals. Groucho Marx

Vegetarians do not eat animals, but do devour their food. Robert Lembke

The cucumber should be finely chopped, seasoned with pepper and vinegar and thrown into the trash, since it is not good for anything else. Samuel Johnson

For the spinach: Divide it into two piles. Then redo it again. After five or six such maneuvers, move your plate aside and say that you are full. Delia Ephron

The salad is divine, although I'm not sure it's actually food. Diana Freeland

I don't mess with lettuce, cabbage and other chlorophyll. Any nutritionist will tell you that one linear meter of apple strudel contains four times more vitamins than a bucket of beans. S. J. Perelman

Onions can make a person cry. but they still haven’t developed a vegetable that makes you laugh. Will Rogers

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. Laurie Colvin

If God gave us any edible plant, it was the bean. Jean Henri Fabre

I admit, few things scare me more than the appearance of mushrooms on the table, especially in some provincial wilderness. Alexandr Duma

I don't eat intelligent creatures, but I would gladly make an exception for the sake of some TV producer or politician. Marty Fieldman

A vegetarian is someone who does not eat food that can have children. David Brenner

If we are not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat? Joe Brand

Caesar's armies fought on vegetarian food. Will Durant

I was a vegetarian until I noticed that I was reaching for the sun. Rita Rudner

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. Alan Whitney Brown

Vegetarians have evil, shifty eyes and a dry, deliberate laugh. They pinch children, steal stamps, drink water and have beards. John Bingham Morton Known by the nickname “Podzaborny”, he is known for his critical articles about art, socialism, and inventions. He spent his last years alone, subsisting on bread and jam.

Place an apple and a rabbit in your baby's crib. If he eats a rabbit and plays with an apple, I will buy you a new car. Harvey Diamond

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• “The righteous man cares for the life of his livestock, but the heart of the wicked is hard” (Proverbs 12:10).

• “The fruit of the trees will be used for food, and the leaves for medicine” (Ezekiel 47:12).

• “...and when you increase your prayers, I do not hear you; your hands are full of blood” (Isaiah 1:15).

• “I desire mercy, not sacrifice” (Hosea 6:6).

• “He who slaughters an ox is as he who kills a man” (Isaiah 66:3).

• “Be not among those who are drunk with wine, nor among those who are full of meat” (Proverbs 23:20).

• “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13). Many people tend to perceive this commandment only in relation to their own kind. In fact, there are no reservations following it.

• “Thanks be to the Lord, since I have ceased to drink wine and eat meat, I have been delivered from all the diseases of the flesh” (John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church).

• “Whoever does good to lower creatures does good to himself” (Prophet Mohammed).

• “The Lord is kind and merciful to all His creatures” (Psalm 146:9)

• “Do not maim dumb creatures” (Prophet Mohammed).

• “In order not to inspire terror in living beings, let the disciple abstain from meat food... The food of the sage is that which sadhus (saints) eat, it does not contain meat. In the future, some fools may say that I allowed to eat meat and ate it myself, but... I did not allow anyone to eat meat, I do not allow it now and I will never allow it - in any form and in any place. Meat is forbidden for everyone, and no one can challenge this prohibition” (Buddha. From the Dhammapada).

• “If you feel an irresistible desire to eat meat, make an animal figurine from clarified butter or dough and eat it. But never encroach on the life of a living being...” (“Manusmiriti” 5.37.174).

And here are the statements of some famous people who lived in different countries and in different eras, but were able to understand and appreciate how misleading

humanity in matters of nutrition:

• “The greatness of a nation and the degree of its spiritual development can be determined by the way that nation treats animals” (Mahatma Gandhi).

• “Everything in the world is interconnected. Whatever happens to animals can also happen to humans” (Indira Gandhi).

• “As long as humanity allows cows to constantly die in slaughterhouses, it will not be able to achieve peace and prosperity” (A.C. Bhagtive danta Swami Prabhupada).

• “I believe that a vegetarian diet, if only because of its purely physical effect on the human temperament, must have an extremely beneficial effect on the fate of mankind” (Albert Einstein).

• “As long as man exterminates animals, he will kill people. Truly, he who sows the seed of murder and torment will not reap joy and love” (Pythagoras).

• “When a man hunts a tiger, it is called sport; when a tiger hunts a man, it is called bloodthirstiness” (J. Bernard Shaw).