Non Violence Vegan Quotes & Sayings

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened. — Lindsay Lohan

Non-injury to all living beings is the only religion." (first truth of Jainism) "In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves." "This is the quintessence of wisdom; not to kill anything. All breathing, existing, living sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable Law. Therefore, cease to injure living things." "All living things love their life, desire pleasure and do not like pain; they dislike any injury to themselves; everybody is desirous of life and to every being, his life is very dear."
Yogashastra (Jain Scripture) (c. 500 BCE) — Anonymous

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god. — Daniel Dennett

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry. — Morrissey

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation. — Gary L. Francione

Fear is the number one reason why people never live up to their potential. — Jeff Smith

A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things. — Bre Pettis

Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years. — Joe Pass

I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent. — Laura Mvula

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It's a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend. — Gary L. Francione

People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter - or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position. — Gary L. Francione

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song. — Rabindranath Tagore

In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium. — Kevin Crossley-Holland

Alaska pulling the controller up and to the right, as if that would help her escape certain death. I had the same bad habit. — John Green

...whose true object is to shed the clearest light on every step which reason takes. — Immanuel Kant

If the shoe fits, buy it. — Imelda Marcos

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! — Bill Vaughan

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan. — Gary L. Francione