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 is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. – Robert Hutchison, address to the British Medical Association, 1930
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
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith
A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nations economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens. – Tim Holden
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But Im lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. – Ann Bancroft
