Best Vegan Quotes

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Violence begins with the fork.

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I think what I’d really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

Being vegan just gives you such great karma.

I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I’ll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

I make a vegan baked ziti. And even though that doesn’t sound enjoyable, it really is.

I’m a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.

Well, everything with being vegan and vegetarian is a really big commitment. You have to do what you feel is best and what you believe in and what your body is telling you that it needs. I really think everyone should do what’s best for them, and what’s best for me may not be best for someone else.

Make your next car electric, put solar panels on your roof, and go vegan.

There’s no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is to immediately start on a vegan diet.

In Vegas, you have an audience you can’t find anywhere else. It’s from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone’s from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks.

Anyone who cares about the Earth – really cares – must stop eating animals.

What would we do if we didn’t try? We have to try.

The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that’s the only difficult part, finding shoes that don’t have leather on them.

Charlie didn’t want to give up meat and smoking. Now he’s gone.

I think that veganism is a totally great choice with incredible benefits, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect other people to be vegan or to expect everybody to be vegan. You can proselytize all you want, but being vegan is a pretty intense choice for a lot of people. You can encourage people to eat vegan more, certainly, and I personally eat vegan quite often.

I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.

To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.

There’s a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They’ve got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.