I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience. – Albert Einstein, 1953
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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. – Mahatma Gandhi
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. – Bill Griffith, Griffith Observatory comic strip, 1977
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab Notes
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. – Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
Youre an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational – and probably sexual! – George Herman
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. – Oswald Chambers
