Quotes on Vegetarianism by Famous Thinkers

Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion. Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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(1879-1955)

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. Albert Einstein(1879-1955)

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. Pythagorus

Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages. Thomas Edison, inventor

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat. Leonardo da Vinci

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after death.Buddhist Dhammapada

To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan’s philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally. Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because …its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling — killing.Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)