Vegan quotes and sayings

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself...

Always be the vegan that you would’ve wanted to meet before you were vegan yourself.

As a vegan, I think people who sell meat are disgusting; but apparently people who sell fruit and veg are grocer.

Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

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

Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don’t align with my values.

Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life – my relationships, how I relate to the world.

Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We’re all going to get sick and die. But to know you’re living without harming? That’s the loveliest feeling.

Being vegan isn’t about restricting oneself in any way, it’s simply about ceasing to take things that clearly are not ours.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual.

I don’t need anyone to die for me to live a very happy and successful life.

I think the purpose of veganism is an appreciation for plants and veggies and fruit and to just eating cleaner... If you're going to go vegan, then really learn how to be.

I wasn’t a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it’s had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.

If a wave of veganism washed over the land, in six months there would be Broccoli Kings, Taco Bell Peppers, and McTofu Drive-Thrus.

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?

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

My daughter Beatrice has been vegan her entire life and she’s tall and fit and healthy and incredible. When her school friends come round, I do sweet potato fries and meatless burgers and hot dogs and the kids love it – they can’t tell the difference. I also always take a vegan cake along to parties, as it's free from junk and everyone can eat it.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.

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

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow.

Please don’t refuse with your eyes what the animals endure with their bodies.

Soon after I went vegan, I saw some documentary footage of what happens in the factory farming of cows... It sealed the deal.

The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong in the world.

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism but in our culture.

Veganism extends compassionate, gentle benevolence to all sentient beings.

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.

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

We strive for a world where every earthling has the right to live and grow. That’s why we don’t eat animals.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.