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Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

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The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

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It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

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

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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

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Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

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It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

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By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

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If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

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