If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

-Paul and Linda McCartney

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

-Rita Rudner (Too good not to include)

We all love animals. Why do we call some “pets” and others “dinner?

-k.d. lang

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

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

-Immanual Kant

Animals are my friends …and I don’t eat my friends.

-George Bernard Shaw

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

-Leonardo da Vinci

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.

-Henry David Thoreau

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.

-Whitney Brown

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.… Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

-John Muir

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

-Leo Tolstoy

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

-George Bernard Shaw

How can you say you’re trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?

-Oprah Winfrey

Thou shalt not kill” does not apply to murder of one’s own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

-Leo Tolstoy

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

-George Bernard Shaw

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

-Albert Schweitzer

An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.

-Martin Buber