Eurasian Vegetarian Society

Citations of people on a vegetarian diet.

Good selection of quotations and aphorisms about vegetarianism and animal protection.
Collected Nail Gaffanov.g.Nefteyugansk.

Sayings of great people on vegetarianism

In Genesis (1.29) God Himself says: "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the whole earth and every tree that has fruit of a tree yielding seed - to you it shall be for meat."

Significantly words that God speaks, addressing the Israeli people: "What I multitude of your sacrifices?: I am full of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts, and the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. : And when ye spread forth your hands, I close my eyes on you, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. "
(Isaiah, 1.11, 1.15)

"Then said Daniel Melzar, which Rabsaris set over Daniel, Hananiah, Miailu and Aza's theory:" Take the experience of thy servants: for ten days and let them give us pulse to eat and water to drink. And then let them in front of you will be the faces of those children that eat the king's meat, and then deal with thy servants, as you'll see. He listened to them in this and proved them ten days. By the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and body were better all the children who ate royal dainties. ... And God gave these four young men knowledge and understanding of all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. "
(Book of Daniel 1:11-17).

In the Dhammapada, in anticipation of possible deviations from its teachings, the Buddha said: "There will be fools, which in future will say that I have allowed meat eating and he ate meat, but also know that (:) I would not let anybody eat meat do not allow now and never allow in the future, anywhere, under any circumstances and in any form, and this once and for all banned for everyone.

Another verse of the Dhammapada, "warns the sad consequences of eating meat:" Anyone hoping to find happiness tortures or kills other living creatures, which also tend to happiness, closes his way to happiness in the next life. "

"Killing animals for food, man suppresses in himself the highest spiritual feelings - compassion and pity for other living beings, like him - and, stepping over themselves, hardens his heart."
Tolstoy

"How can we hope that the world will be peace and prosperity, if our bodies are the living graves in which the buried dead animals?"
Tolstoy

"When the whole landed property of the universe will be inherited by all creatures, you will find some justification for a system in which to someone directed stream of unprecedented wealth, while others were dying from what they lack, and a handful of grain
PR Sarkar.

"Animals - these are my friends ... and I do not eat my friends. That's terrible! Not only the suffering and death of animals, but the fact that people unnecessarily suppresses a higher spiritual treasure - the sympathy and compassion for all sentient beings, like themselves, trampling their own feelings becomes cruel. " We beseech God to illuminate our path: "Give us the light, the all-good Lord!" The nightmare of war we do not allow to fall asleep, but in the teeth we have the dead animals flesh.
George Bernard Shaw

"In my opinion, a vegetarian lifestyle, thanks to its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would have a most beneficial effect on most of humanity."
Albert Einstein

"It is true that man - a king of animals, in their cruelty, he exceeds them. We are living through the death of others. We just cannot cemetery. Since early childhood, I abstain from eating meat and the time will come when people will look at the killing of an animal as he now looks at the murder of a man.
Leonardo da Vinci

"Peace on earth, or any other world is a huge dependence on the state of mind. Vegetarianism gives the correct mental state for the world .. . It carries the force of a better way of life, which if it becomes universal, can lead to a better, fairer and more peaceful community of nations. "
I NI (Prime Minister of Burma.)