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Observations of Accomplished Luminaries in History
BUDDHA (563-483 B.C.)
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?
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
"It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men were really human beings
and ought to be treated as such...
Today it is considered as exaggeration to
proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand
of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the
human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is
incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in it's unqualified
form extended responsibility to everything that has life."
PYTHAGORAS (580-500 B.C.)
"Alas, what wickedness to have one living creature fed by the death of another...
in the midst of such wealth as Earth, the best of mothers, provides."
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)
"You have just dined; and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in a greacrful
distance in miles, there is complicity."
ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955)
"Nothing will benefit health and increase the chances for survival of life on
Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910)
"Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection
on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere."
LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and 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."
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)
"The average longevityof a meat-eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still at work as hard
as ever. I have lived quite long enough, and I am tyring to die; but I simply cannot do it.
A single beef
steak will finish me, but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of
living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism."
SOCRATES (c470-399)
"The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an
understanding of compassion."
PERCY BRYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
"...the butchering of harmless animals cannot fail to produce much of that spirit of insane
and hideous exultation in which news of victory (in war) is related, although
purchased by the massacre of a hundred thousand men..."
PLATO (c428-347)
"The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies...they are the
trees and the plants and the seeds."
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