Quotations on vegetarianism:
"A righteous person regards the life of his animal, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel." - Proverbs 12:10
"You save humans and animals alike, O Lord." - Psalm 36:6
"It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble." - Paul in Romans 14:21
"Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall." - Paul in First Corinthians 8:13
"Your destruction of animals will terrify you." - Habbakuk 2:17
"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
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant
"I began to wonder why we cuddle some animals and put a fork in others." - Henry Spira
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." - Abraham Lincoln
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man." - Francis of Assisi
"To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity." - Howard Lyman
"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
"There is something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power, who have weapons neither of offence nor defense, that none but very hardened persons can endure the thought of it." - Cardinal John Henry Newman
"I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open." - Dean Ornish, M.D.
"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." - Neal Barnard, M.D.
"Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you -- alas, it is true of almost every one of us!" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[On the realized kingdom of God]
"The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze;
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea." - Isaiah 11:6-9