“Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful.” — Alicia Silverstone

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” — Albert Einstein

“I believe that a vegan diet causes less suffering than a diet centered around animal products. Animals are sentient creatures with their own wills, and it seems wrong to force our will onto another creature just because we're able to.” — Moby

“Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!'?” — Calvin & Hobbes

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.” — Alice Walker

“Vegetarian as a general concept is a brilliant thing. We've got to stop eating so much meat. We are eating too much meat.” — Jamie Oliver

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” — Paul McCartney

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Now at last I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore.” — Franz Kafka (Novelist)

“When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!” — John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.

“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.” — George Bernard Shaw

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

“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.” — Stephen Grellet

“If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.” — K.D. Lang

“My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so that there won't be any more suffering” — Alicia Silverstone

“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.” — Buddha

“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

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” — Mark Twain

“Sympathy for the animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.” — Charles Darwin

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer