People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.
"If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food."—Count Leo Tolstoy
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."—Albert Schweitzer
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." —Albert Einstein
"Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs."—Jane Goodall
"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other."—Henry David Thoreau
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust."—Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."—Thomas A. Edison
"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore"—Franz Kafka
"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer?"—Jeremy Bentham
"You call yourself an enviromentalist and you still eat meat?"—E The Environmental Magazine
"I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by…having it processed for you."—Margi Clark
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