115 Vegan Quotes: For Health, the Planet, & the Animals!

 “Becoming vegan is not a trend, it is an awakening.”

“If you think being vegan is difficult, you’re focused more on yourself than the victims.”

“Eat nothing with a face or a mother.”

 “If you can live happily and healthily without harming animals then why wouldn’t you?”

“Veganism isn’t a belief. Animals are dying. The planet is dying. We could make it better. Choices. That’s not a belief. That’s a fact.”

“Love animals, eat plants.”

“If you were to meet the animals on your plate face to face, they would show you love. Maybe that is enough of a reason to show love back.”

 “Vegan because anything else is accepting cruelty.”

“To everyone who wishes vegans would stop talking about veganism: How silent would you want us to be if you were the victim…?

“If we don’t bring their suffering into the light, it will continue to grow in the dark.”

“Medicine is not healthcare, food is healthcare. Medicine is sick care. Let’s all get that straight for a change.”

-Karen Pendergrass

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

-Michael Pollan

“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”

-Robert Urich

“Eat your medicine.”

-Anonymous

“What you eat every day is a far more powerful determinant of your health than your DNA or most of the nasty chemicals lurking in your environment.”

-T. Colin Campbell

“The food you eat can either be the safest & most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”

–Ann Wigmore

“Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.”

-T. Colin Campbell

“Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.”

–Caldwekk Esselstyn

“When you truly understand that your food choices are powerful and life affirming, you can exercise control and restraint without deprivation.”

– Marlene Adlemann

“World Peace begins in the kitchen.”

-Anonymous

“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”

– HIPPOCRATES

“Some people think the ‘plant-based whole foods diet’ is extreme.Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn on their coronary artery. Some would call that extreme.”

– Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn

“The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.”

-Dr. Michael Greger

“People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn’t feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein — all the wrong foods for people.”

-Dr. John McDougall

Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

– Hippocrates

“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all auto-mobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of “real food for real people” you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.”

-Neal D. Barnard

“Don’t talk of love and peace when you have a dead animal on your plate.”

-Socrates

 “All Beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?”

–Buddha

“For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”

-Pythagoras

“My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.”

– Peter Singer

“Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable.”

– Gary L Francione

“My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”

– 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.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

“Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?”

– -Ellen Page

“When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.”

-Paul McCartney

“We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive.”

-Joaquin Phoenix

“I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person.”

-Ariana Grande

“If you choose to eat meat… you love PETS not ANIMALS.”

-Miley Cyrus

“This may surprise you, because it surprised me when I found out, but the single biggest thing an individual can do to combat climate change is to stop eating animals.”

-James Cameron

“We don’t need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.”

– James Cromwell

“It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.”

-James Cameron

“Regardless of anyone’s dietary motivations, the healthiest lifestyle is the one that’s most compassionate.”

-Steve-O

I just didn’t want to be fat. I got tired of breathing hard. I got tired of my joints hurting. I just got tired of being lied to.”

-Waka Flocka Flame

“I don’t see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.”

-Russell Brand

“Animals don’t have a voice, but I do. A loud one. A big mouth. My voice is for them. And I’ll never shut up while they suffer.”

–Ricky Gervais

“If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.”

-James Cromwell

 “Veganism is not about how easy or hard it is for you. It’s about every animal’s right not to be used as a slave.”

–Randy Sandberg

“I’ve found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.”

–Carl lewis

 “It’s my most deeply held belief; that every animal, human or not, is simply/basically/ineluctably entitled to their own life.”

-Moby

“I’m a vegan to reduce climate change, improve human health, end antibiotic resistance and rainforest deforestation, but ultimately I’m a vegan for the animals.”

-Moby

“If you don’t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured, then you shouldn’t condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.”

-Moby

“Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, ‘My appetite is more important than your suffering’?”

-moby

“Mainly I’m a vegan because I like animals, and I don’t want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it’s better for my health and for the environment.”

-moby

“Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.”

-moby

“When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as “animals”, yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.”

-Anthony Douglas Williams

“Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.”

– Ingrid Newkirk

 “You know what’s more insane than slaughterhouses? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.”

– Gary Yourofsky

“No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.”

-Howard Lyman

“Humane slaughter is an oxymoron”

-Unknown

“Be kind to every kind”

-Unknown

“I was not raised vegan. I did not become vegan because I did not like the taste of meat, dairy, or eggs. I became vegan because one day, I had the courage to take responsibility for my choices. I no longer believe animals are here for us for food, clothing, entertainment, testing, or any other purpose. I am Vegan.”

-Unknown

“If you can’t stand watching it being produced, you shouldn’t be eating it.”

-Unknown

“Veganism – Saving Millions One Bite At A Time”

-Unknown

“My body is not a graveyard.

-Unknown

“Tofu never screams.”

-Unknown

“The hardest part about going vegan is realizing the lack of empathy in the world and staying strong enough to fight against it.”

-Unknown

“How can people hope for peace when the whole planet is a giant slaughterhouse and prison?”

-Unknown

“We take some animals to the park to play. Others, to the slaughterhouse to stab. It’s uncivilized, violent and cruel, but we prefer to call it “humane”.”

-Unknown

“I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man”

-Gandhi

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

–Gandhi

“The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

-Gandhi

“Violence begins with the fork.”

-Gandhi

“Change What You Eat – Change The World”

-UNKNOWN

“Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It’s like biting into your grandmother.”

-Morrisey

“Animals love me, plants fear me”

-UNKNOWN

“If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.”

– Howard Lyman

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages”

-Thomas Edison

“If you think eating meat is just a personal choice, you’re forgetting someone.”

-unknown

“Strong people don’t eat helpless animals.”

-unknown

“If you have to choose between being kind and being right, choose kind and you will always be right. “

-unknown

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

-Albert Einstein

“One to change a few. A few to change many. Many to change the world. Starts with one.”

-Anonymous

“Only when we have become non-violent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves,”

–Cesar Chavez

“Animals are not products. Life doesn’t have a price.” -Anonymous

–Unknown

“All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.”

–Unknown

“It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.”

–Roy E. Disney

“It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.”

-Haile Selassie

“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.”

– Bradley Miller

“I love being vegan; it’s the best thing that ever happened to me. I finally understand, we all have but one life, human, cow, ant, everyone, it is not our right to take it away on a whim, simply because we can, it’s their right to live their lives, just like us, just like me.”

– Jaco van Drongelen

 “The best thing we can do for the living world is to stop eating meat, milk, and eggs.”

–George Monbiot

“Most people don’t question their habit of eating animals, as they’ve been brought up to believe it is normal behavior. But causing suffering should never be considered normal.”

– Benjamin Zephaniah

“Fish are friends, not food.”

– Sharks in Finding Nemo