Famous Vegans
Quotes by famous vegans/vegetarians.
Jared Leto (on looking so young)
"I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process."
Peter Dinklage
"I like animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm vegan"
Leonardo Da Vinci
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
James Cromwell
"I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian."
Leo Tolstoy
"A human can be healthy without killing animals for food."
Albert Einstein
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Thomas Edison
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming other living beings, we are still savages."
Woody Harrelson
"I've been vegan for about ten and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier"
Alec Baldwin
"Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for the animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health."
Richard Gere
"As custodians of the planet, it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
Abraham Lincoln
"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
Alicia Silverstone
"Being vegan helped me realise I can say and do what is right. That's powerful."
Albert Schweitzer
"It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man."
Rue McClanahan
"Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count."
River Phoenix (his brother Joaquin is also vegan and voices the documentary "Earthlings")
"Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace."
Moby
"I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat, I've been doing it so long that it's just second nature."
Martha Plimpton (vegetarian)
"Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way"
Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
Plato
"The Gods created certain kinds of being to replenish our bodies, they are the trees and the plants and the seeds."
George Bernard Shaw
"Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends"
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality”
Tobey Maguire
"I'm close to being a vegan, but I'm not one, technically. I don't eat eggs, or nearly any dairy - no cheese or milk. I do eat honey, and a piece of milk chocolate here and there. It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that. I don't judge people who eat meat - that's not for me to say - but the whole thing just sort of bums me out."
Jonathan Safran Foer (vegetarian)
"Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands up in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle"
"We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?"
"To accept the factory farm feels inhuman. To accept the factory farm - to feed the food it produces to my family, to support it with my money - would make me less myself, less my grandmother's grandson, less my son's father. This is what my grandmother meant when she said "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save."
Jared Leto (on looking so young)
"I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process."
Peter Dinklage
"I like animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm vegan"
Leonardo Da Vinci
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
James Cromwell
"I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian."
Leo Tolstoy
"A human can be healthy without killing animals for food."
Albert Einstein
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Thomas Edison
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming other living beings, we are still savages."
Woody Harrelson
"I've been vegan for about ten and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier"
Alec Baldwin
"Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for the animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health."
Richard Gere
"As custodians of the planet, it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
Abraham Lincoln
"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
Alicia Silverstone
"Being vegan helped me realise I can say and do what is right. That's powerful."
Albert Schweitzer
"It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man."
Rue McClanahan
"Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count."
River Phoenix (his brother Joaquin is also vegan and voices the documentary "Earthlings")
"Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace."
Moby
"I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat, I've been doing it so long that it's just second nature."
Martha Plimpton (vegetarian)
"Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way"
Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
Plato
"The Gods created certain kinds of being to replenish our bodies, they are the trees and the plants and the seeds."
George Bernard Shaw
"Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends"
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality”
Tobey Maguire
"I'm close to being a vegan, but I'm not one, technically. I don't eat eggs, or nearly any dairy - no cheese or milk. I do eat honey, and a piece of milk chocolate here and there. It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that. I don't judge people who eat meat - that's not for me to say - but the whole thing just sort of bums me out."
Jonathan Safran Foer (vegetarian)
"Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands up in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle"
"We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?"
"To accept the factory farm feels inhuman. To accept the factory farm - to feed the food it produces to my family, to support it with my money - would make me less myself, less my grandmother's grandson, less my son's father. This is what my grandmother meant when she said "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save."