"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses."
-George Bernard Shaw
"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
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
-Leonardo da Vinci
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
-Leo Tolstoy
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
-Albert Einstein
"Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food."
-Henry David Thoreau
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I found this article by accident but I thought it was interesting that science is starting to catch up with Eastern philosophy:
"Vegetarians are more intelligent: the British Medical Journal says"
In case you find that source to be biased, here's a BBC News article as well:
"High IQ link to being vegetarian."
"But Dr. Frankie Philips, of the British Dietetic Association, said: 'It is like the chicken and the egg. Do people become vegetarian because they have a very high IQ or is it just that they tend to be more aware of health issues?' "
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