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Vegan Quotes and Vegetarian Sayings

If you look at the history of vegan quotes and vegetarian sayings, they go back decades.

Dozens of famous personalities from all fields who have emphasized the importance of veganism and vegetarianism embraced it and encouraged others to follow.

Some of the most famous names include Benjamin Franklin, Carl Lewis, Mike Tyson, Martina Navratilova, Albert Einstein, Natalie Portman, Russell Brand, Leo Tolstoy, Alicia Silverstone, Bill Clinton, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, George Bernard Shaw, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Here are some compelling Vegan and Vegetarian Quotes to encourage and inspire you to make the world a better place.

Vegan Quotes and Vegetarian Sayings.

Quotes About Veganism

1.) Veganism is not a sacrifice. It is a joy.
Gary L. Francione

2.) 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

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

4.) Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw

5.) My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
Leonardo Da Vinci

Best Vegan Quotes

6.) Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.
Thich Nhat Hanh

7.) If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.
Ernest Howard Crosby

8.) People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
Pino Caruso

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Vegan quotes.

Vegan Sayings

9.) Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That’s powerful.
Alicia Silverstone

10.) Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it’s a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.
Olivia Wilde

11.) I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity.
Rai Aren

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Good Vegan Quotes

12.) With lentils, tomatoes and rice, olives and nuts and bread, Why does a man care to gnaw a slice of something bleeding and dead?
Henry Bailey Stevens

13.) I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.
Al Gore

14.) Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.
Steve-O

15.) The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
Uri Gellar

16.) They are nothing; they don’t count; they don’t matter. They are commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects -sandwiches and shoes.
Gary Yourofsky

Olivia Wilde Vegan quote.

Inspirational Vegan Quotes

17.) You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.) When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or any other animal products, I say because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.
Cassey Affleck

19.) We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Gary L. Francione

20.) Give up animal foods for two months, or even for a week, and I promise you will look and feel better, and you’ll want to do it forever.
Alicia Silverstone

21.) When you adopt a vegan diet, we make a connection; you don’t go back; it is not a diet; it is a lifestyle.
Freelee Frugivore

22.) I’m a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.
Lea Michele

23.) The human body has no more need for cows’ milk than it does for dogs’ milk, horses’ milk, or giraffes’ milk.
Michael Klaper

24.) Being vegan doesn’t make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.
Brendan Brazier

Vegan quote for athletes.

What is Vegan?

A person who does not eat or use animal products of any kind.

Good Vegetarian Sayings

25.) If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.
Linda McCartney

26.) I did not become a vegetarian for my health; I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

27.) Vegetarianism preserves life, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit.
Gabriel Cousens

28.) Anyone who cares about the Earth – really cares – must stop eating animals.
Linda McCartney

Lynda McCartney vegetarian quote.

Farm To Table Quotes

29.) I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do.
Cesar Chavez

30.) No animals need to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.
Howard Lyman

31.) If you could see or feel the suffering, you wouldn’t think twice. Give back life. Don’t eat meat.
Kim Basinger

32.) A vegetarian in Texas. You’re a long way from home.
Lee Child

33.) It is more important to prevent animal suffering rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe, praying in the company of priests.
Buddha

34.) I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
Mohandas Gandhi

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Einstein vegetarian quote.

Einstein Vegetarian Quotes

Albert Einstein, one of the most famous scientists in history, turned vegetarian after supporting the concept for decades. There are a few famous vegetarian quotes from the German-born physicist.

35.) I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

36.) Nothing will benefit human health or increase chances of survival on Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

37.) It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Powerful Vegetarian Quotes

38.) 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

39.) You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I’ll buy you a new car.
Harvey Diamond

40.) We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
Rachel Carson

41.) Every living creature has the right to live ethically.
Dirk Verbeuren

42.) There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
Charles Darwin

43.) We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
Rachel Carson

44.) Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
Peter Singer

See what the Mayo Clinic suggests for a vegetarian diet.

Celebrity Quotes

45.) 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.
Tobey Maguire

46.) About three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings.
Natalie Portman

47.) We all love animals. Why do we call some ‘pets’ and others dinner?
K.D. Lang

48.) 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

49.) 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

50.) Behind every beautiful fur coat, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
Mary Tyler Moore

Awesome Vegetarian and Vegan Quotes

51.) It’s pretty amazing to wake up every morning knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It’s a pretty fantastic way to live.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

52.) The only animals I eat are crackers.
Unknown

53.) Vegan food is soul food in its truest form.
Erykah Badu

54.) To get mud off your hands, use soap and water. To get blood off your hands, go vegan.
John Sakars

55.) If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?
Jack Norris

56.) If you don’t like pictures of animal cruelty being posted on social media, you need to help stop the cruelty, not the pictures. You should be bothered that it’s happening, not that you saw it.
Marie Sarantakis

57.) Most consumers are unaware of the ongoing, intense suffering and billions of premature deaths that lurk behind mayonnaise and cream, cold cuts and egg sandwiches.
Lisa Kemmerer

58.) People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species.
Michael Klaper

Important Quotes About Vegetarians

59.) If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.
James Cromwell

60.) The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin

61.) Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, My appetite is more important than your suffering?
Moby

62.) The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Gandhi

63.) Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.
T. Casey Brennan

64.) No other animal on Earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.
Anthony Douglas Williams

65.) 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

66.) The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men.
Alice Walker

Motivational Quotes for Vegetarians

67.) I’m a really big lover of animals, and, at the risk of sounding like a total hippie, I do feel more connected to the world at large and to animals.
Mickey Madden

68.) 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

69.) It takes 12 pounds of grain and 2,500 gallons of water to create a single pound of beef.
Mayim Bialik

70.) A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Leo Tolstoy

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

72.) Every time sitting at a dining table, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for the animals. Do it for the environment and for the sake of your own health.
Alec Baldwin

73.) To kill an animal in order to satisfy your nutritional desires, not your nutritional needs, that seems to me to be completely unacceptable.
David Benatar

Motivational Quotes for Vegans

74.) Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.
Chris Hedges

75.) The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.
Bryan Adams

76.) I don’t see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack. 
Russell Brand

77.) I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Henry David Thoreau

80.) Beautiful animals and ugly people wear fur coats.
Unknown

81.) Vegan is just pure love. Love for animals, love for the planet, and love for yourself.
Mischa Temaul

82.) Using a balanced, plant-based diet, I have dramatically reduced risk factors for heart disease in countless patients.
Terry Shintani

83.) The Gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies; they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
Plato

Michael Pollan Quotes

84.) Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

85.) You are what “what you eat” eats.

86.) The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

87.) Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

88.) If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.

89.) Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

90.) The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

Funny Vegetarian Quotes

91.) I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudner

92.) Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Andy Rooney

93.) I did not become a vegetarian for my health; I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

95.) Tell someone you’re a vegetarian, and suddenly, they have a degree in nutrition.
Unknown

Funny Vegan Quotes

96.) Anything you can do, I can do vegan.
Unknown

97.) I got 99 problems, and protein ain’t one.
Unknown

98.) Eat beans, not beings.
Unknown

99.) Animals love me – plants fear me.
Unknown

100.) I love being vegan from my head tomatoes.
Unknown

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About Michael O'Halloran

Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He’s the author of Best Sports Slogans and Captions. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and authored four books on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most dealing with wordplay.

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