To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would read more

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.

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living read more

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, read more

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 when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred

Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot read more

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.