#getar

Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty! ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#vegetarian #america

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.) ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#vegetarians #lifestyle

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#vegetarianism #ethics

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

— Albert Schweitzer

#ethics #peace #vegetarianism #ethics

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#vegetarianism #ethics

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#animals #vegetarian #cruelty

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. ↗

— César Chávez

#animal-kindness #animal-rights #vegan #vegetarian #cruelty

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#vegetarianism #eating

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#celery #clothes #cool #giant #i

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#been #care #dog #except #hanging