Below is a list of quotes from sole people you may have heard of, some you haven’t, and some we can’t quite track down. All of them relate to a kind and compassionate vegan lifestyle, so now you know we’re not the only crazy vegans out there!

Ethics – Environment – Health – Humor – Spirituality

Ethics

“All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.” -Unknown

“Always let your conscience be your guide.” -Jiminy Cricket

“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.” -Martin Buber

“Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.” -Peter Singer

“Animal protection isn’t a radical idea. It follows the simple principle that if animals feel pain, joy and fear, they should be protected from suffering.” -Unknown

“Animals are here with us, not for us.” -Unknown

“Animals are my friends. And I don’t eat my friends.” -George Bernard Shaw

“Animals are not ingredients.” -Barbara Thompson

“Animals are not products. Life doesn’t have a price.” -Unknown

“Animals do not ‘give’ theirs over to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to their last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.” -John Robbins

“Animals don’t have a voice, but I do. A loud one. A big f*cking mouth. My voice is for them. And I’ll never shut up while they suffer.” -Ricky Gervais

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

“Behind every beautiful fur coat, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.” -Mary Tyler Moore

“Bringing animals into the world only to kill them is not part of the ‘cycle of nature’. We artificially inseminate animals, kill them before their life span is up, then justify it as ‘natural’, comparing ourselves to ‘other animals who kill to survive’. Last time I looked, lions weren’t breeding gazelles.” -Colleen Patrick Goudreau

“Compassion is the best side effect of being vegan.” -Unknown

“Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, ‘My appetite is more important than your suffering’?” -Moby

“Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.” -Rue McClanahan

“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable.” -Jodi Foster

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” -Maya Angelou

“Don’t talk of love and peace when you have a dead animal on your plate.” -Unknown

“Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.” -Anthony Douglas Williams

“Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.” -Natalie Portman

“Every living creature has the right to live ethically.” -Dirk Verbeuren

“Fur coats are worn by beautiful animals and ugly people.” -Unknown

“I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another’s suffering.” -Zoe Weil

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” -Unknown

“I was not raised vegan. I did not become vegan because I do not like the taste of meat, dairy, or eggs. I became vegan because one day I had the courage to take responsibility for my actions. I no longer believe animals are here for us for food, clothing, entertainment, testing, or any other purpose. I am vegan.” -Unknown

“I can’t think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.” -Alicia Silverstone

“I didn’t change, I just woke up.” -Unknown

“I don’t see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.” -Russell Brand

“I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man” -Ghandi

“I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn’t disconnect myself from it any longer.” -Ellen DeGeneres

“I’m a really big lover of animals, and, at the risk of sounding like a total hippie, I do feel more connected to the world at large and to animals.” -Mickey Madden

“I’m a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.” -Lea Michelle

“If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.” -James Cromwell

“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?” -Jack Norris

“If you can be anything, be kind.” -Anonymous

“If you can’t stand watching it be produced, you shouldn’t be eating it.” -Unknown

“If you don’t like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.” -Johnny Depp

“If you don’t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn’t condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.” -Moby

“If you think eating meat is just a personal choice, you are forgetting someone.” -Unknown

“If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine being a factory farmed animal.” -Davegan Raza

“It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.” -Joaquin Phoenix

“It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.” -Haile Selassie

“It’s pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It’s a pretty fantastic way to live.” -Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

“It’s never really been that hard for me. I’ve never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all.” -Tobey Maguire

“It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.” Roy E. Disney

“Life is too short to make others shorter.” -Unknown

“Meat is the dead body of someone who wanted to live.” -Unknown

“My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.” -Leonardo Da Vinci

“No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.” -Howard Lynan

“No other animal on Earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.” -Anthony Douglas Williams

“Nobody really needs a mink coat… Except the mink.” -Glenda Jackson

“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 Edison

“One to change a few. A few to change many. Many to change the world. Starts with one.” -Unknown

“Only when we have become non-violent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves,” -Cesar Chavez

“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.” -Michael Klaper

“People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.” -Pino Caruso

“People may hate you for being different and not living by society’s standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.” -Unknown

“Please don’t refuse with your eyes what the animals endure with their bodies.” -Shaun Monson

“Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.” -T. Casey Brennan

“Saying ‘animals are yummy’ as a justification for killing them is pretty much the same argument as saying rape is ok because it feels good to the rapist.” -Unknown

“Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!” -Steve Simmons

“Start with your heart, and only good can follow!” -Unknown

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

“The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.” -Bryan Adams

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong in the world.” -Dr. Paul Farmer

“The future is not something we enter, the future is something we create.” -Unknown

“The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” -Gandhi

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” -Charles Darwin

“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing; they don’t count; they don’t matter. They are commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects – sandwiches and shoes.” Gary Yourofsky

“The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?” -Jeremy Bentham

“The real struggle in veganism doesn’t involve food. The hardest part about becoming vegan is coming face to face with the darker side of humanity and trying to remain hopeful. It’s trying to understand why otherwise good and caring people continue to participate in needless violence against animals just for the sake of their own pleasure or convenience.” – Jo Tyler

“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.” -Leonardo Da Vinci

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” -Albert Einstein

“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.” -Charles Darwin

“To face animal suffering is to face our responsibility in their suffering.” -JoAnne McArthur

“To get mud off your hands, use soap and water. To get blood off your hands, go vegan.” -John Sakars

“Vegan is not a diet. It’s not a phase. It’s a permanent lifestyle.” -Unknown

“Vegan is not about being perfect. It is about doing the least harm and the most good.” -Unknown

“Vegan is not extreme. What’s extreme is that we say we love animals yet pay people to torture, abuse, and kill them just because we like the taste of their dead bodies. Now THAT is extreme” -@inthesoulshine

“Vegan: Because going to bed at night knowing that I did not contribute to any beings suffering makes my soul shine.” -@vegansofaus

“Veganism is not a sacrifice. It is a joy.” -Gary L. Francion

“Veganism is not about how hard it is for you. It’s about every animal’s right not to be used as a slave.” -Randy Sandberg

“Veganism is not the end point or the most we can do, rather it is the least we can do. Veganism is the minimum standard of decency.” -Unknown

“We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.” -Rachel Carson

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

“When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as “animals”, yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.” -Anthony Douglas Williams

“When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.” -Paul McCartney

“When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or any other animal products, I say, ‘Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.’”-Cassey Afleck

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain

“Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?” -Ellen Page

“World Peace begins in the kitchen.” -Unknown

“You can’t do anything violent humanely.” -James Wildman

“You either approve of violence or you don’t, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.” -Morrisey

Environment

“Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.” -Chris Hedges

“I’m a vegan. I respect the environment and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.” -Jared Leto

“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers.” -Pete Singer

Health

“I’ve been vegan since I got out of the hospital… It’s another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.” -Travis Barke

“My body is a garden, not a graveyard” -Unknown

“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of the century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.” -Dr. Neal Barnard

“We choose to eat meat and have therefore built slaughter houses for the animals and hospitals for us.”-Akbarali Jetha

“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.” -Ayurvedic proverb

“You don’t have to take a life to gain muscle.” –

Humor

“Animal lovers who eat meat are like cannibals calling themselves a people person.” -Unknown

“Eat your own leg” -The chickens, sheep, and frogs

“Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It’s like biting into your grandmother.” -Morrisey

Girl: For Christmas I want a dragon.
Santa: Be realistic.
Girl: Ok, I want a vegan boyfriend.
Santa: What color dragon did you want?

“I could never go vegan” -Every vegan before becoming vegan

“I cured my cancer by eating meat, dairy, and eggs” -No one ever

“I think people who sell meat are disgusting, but people who sell fruits and vegetables are grocer.” -Unknown

“I’m so vegan I don’t even call my girlfriend honey” -Unknown

“Non-vegans are like, don’t you miss bacon and eggs? and I’m like, no sweetie but I do miss he Amazon rainforest, the trillions of animals being killed every year, and all my friends and relatives that have died from cancer” -Unknown

“People who think vegans only eat salad are the same people who think beds are the only furniture you can have sex on” -Unknown

Shopper: “Should I be concerned that these tomatoes are genetically modified?”
Tomato: “No.”

“The only animals I eat are crackers.” -Unknown

“You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I’ll buy you a new car.” -Harvey Diamond

Spirituality

“As I improved my diet, I started to learn to love my self, probably for the first time ever.” -Frank Ferrante

“Being vegan just gives you such great karma.” -Alicia Silverstone

“May all that have life be delivered from suffering.” -Buddha

“Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.” -Ali Ibn Abi Taalib

“The best part of being a vegan is
the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.” -Uri Gellar

“The Gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies; they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.” -Plato

“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.” -Hippocrates

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” -Anatole France

“Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.” -Erykah Badu

“When you feel the suffering of every living thing in your own heart, that is consciousness.” -Bhagavad Gita
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