Some short quotes to plant seeds in our minds about the root and the core and the sense of plant-based living, with the hope that they bear the fruit of plant-based lives.
On The Environment
Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal
(George Monbiot)
Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species
(Chris Hedges)
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers
(Peter Singer)
Whether human beings survive this century and the next, whether other lifeforms can live alongside us: above all this depends on the way we eat. We can cut our consumption of everything else close to zero and still drive living systems to collapse, unless we change our diets
(George Monbiot)
There is No Planet B
(Stephen Hawking)
On Health
The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest
(Dr Michael Greger)
We choose to eat meat and have therefore built slaughter houses for the animals and hospitals for ourselves
(Akbarali Jetha)
On Other Lives
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian
(Linda and Paul McCartney)
I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Nobody really needs a mink coat… Except the mink
(Glenda Jackson)
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics
(Peter Singer)
The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims
(Gary Yourofsky)
The question is not, Can they reason? Nor, Can they talk? But, Can they suffer?
(Jeremy Bentham)
I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals
(Ellen DeGeneres)
Animals are my friends. And I don’t eat my friends
(George Bernard Shaw)
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses
(George Bernard Shaw)
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable
(Gary L. Fracione)
We call them dumb animals, but they are not. Rather, it is we who are deaf to their words; they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because we will not hear
(adapted from Anna Sewell, 1877)
Other Thoughts
It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are
(Roy E. Disney)
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature
(Rachel Carson)
And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food
(The Bible, Genesis)
Following a plant-based or vegan diet is not primarily about giving something up or restricting our rights
It is about treading lightly on the planet and enabling its life to flourish.
This is not legalism or rules to bind – It is liberating
Not a hair shirt to punish – It is opening up new choices
This is not naming and shaming – This is encouraging a better way
(VeganPieces)
Sources of quotes include the following
https://thefriendlyfig.com/2015/02/19/inspirational-vegan-quotes
https://kidadl.com/quotes/inspirational-vegan-quotes-to-make-you-think
