I was looking through the booklet that came with the Moby CD Everything is Wrong, and I noticed that he included several very revealing quotes from important people about vegetarianism and human compassion. So, I decided to use those as the seed of my own personal collection. Be enlightened.
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.
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
-- Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
-- Albert Einstein
Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
-- Albert Schweitzer
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 men.
-- St. Francis of Assisi
basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.
-- Moby
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
-- A. Whitney Brown
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy