Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals. – Finley Peter Dunne

My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid — milk. – Rynn Berry, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. – George Bernard Shaw

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience. – Albert Einstein, 1953