Vegans plant goodwill. – Terri Guillemets, “Pangæa garden,” 1995

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. – A. Whitney Brown

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

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