"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Laureate

"When man destroys what man has made, he is called a VANDAL. When man destroys what God had made, he is called a SPORTSMAN."

"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of the proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."
-Plutarch, Moralia

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
-Francis of Assisi

"The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply routed in tradition or surrounded by a halo."
-Albert Schweitzer

"We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life."
-Paul McCartney

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-Ghandhi, The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism

"Non violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
-Thomas Edison, Harpers Magazine

"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, letter to Vegetarian Watch-Tower

"When we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
-George Bernard Shaw

"The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon Earth."
-Leo Tolstoy (author of War and Peace), News Review

"Forget the pig is an animal. Treat him just like a machine in a factory."
-Hog Farm Management

"I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual development to leave off the eating of animals."
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"We have discovered chickens literally grown fast to the cage...the flesh of the toes grew completely around the wire."
-Poultry Tribune

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fate

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed: to you it shall be for meat."
-Genesis 1:29<

"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."
-Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morality

"To one whose mind is free, there is something even more intolerable in the suffering of animals than in the sufferings of men. 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. That alone is the justification of all that men may suffer. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. If God exists and tolerates it, it cries vengeance upon God."
-Romain Rolland (Nobel Laureate), Jean Christophe

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer?"
-Jeremy Bentham, 19th C Philosopher, Oxford University

"Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, wear them, eat them - without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us."
-Drs. Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

"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."
-Dr. Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy of Civilization

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever does."
-Margaret Mead

"We are the lucky ones - we are not standing day after day in a tiny space, breathing the stench of our own waste, waiting only to be slaughtered. We must do everything possible for those suffering lives of pain and terror."
-Matt Ball, Vegan Outreach Cofounder

"Each sentient animal has a right to his or her body and life. Every step you take towards being vegan makes the world a more compassionate place."
-Vegan Outreach

"Be kind to animals, don't eat them."

"Be kind to animals, don't wear them."

"HEART ATTACK: Gods revenge for eating his friends."

"MEAT, THEIR MURDER, YOUR SUICIDE: Heart disease, stroke, cancer, osteoporosis, kidney disease, diabetes, and other degenerative diseases."

"As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out."
-Alice Walker, Author of The Color Purple

"It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed."
-A. Schweitzer

"Now what is it that moves our very heart and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they have done us no harm; next, that they have no power whatever to resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which make their sufferings so especially touching...there is something so very dreadful, so Satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power."
-Cardinal Newman

"A universe is, indeed, to be pitied whose dominating inhabitants are so unconscious and so ethically embryonic that they make life a commodity, mercy a disease, and systematic massacre a pastime and a profession."
-Professor J. Howard Moore

"Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come."
-Albert Schweitzer

"Let us create Peace by our thoughts and our actions. Then let us share this Peace with The birds of the air, The creatures of the sea, And all who dwell upon the earth. For all life is interconnected. The smallest is no less precious than the largest."

"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now,
let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
-Erienne de Grellet

"Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is...whether its victim is human or animal...we cannot expect things to be much better in this world...We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity."
-Rachel Carson (1907-1964)