The
day will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now
look on the murder of men
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is my view that the vegetarian manner
of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most
beneficially influence the lot of mankind
- Albert Einstein
There is no fundamental difference between man and the
higher mammals in their mental faculties ... The difference in mind between man
and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of
kind.
- Charles Darwin
Would not these facts prevent us from achieving happiness,
and therefore the conditions necessary to the building of a just society, if we
pursue a desire to eat animals?
- Socrates
I only wish to say that for a good life a certain order of
good actions is indispensable; that if a man's aspirations toward right living
be serious they will inevitably follow one definite sequence; and that in this
sequence the first virtue a man will strive after will be self-control,
self-restraint. And in seeking for self-control a man will inevitably follow one
definite sequence, and it this sequence the first thing will be self-control of
food. And if he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first
thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because,
to say nothing of the excitation of the passions caused by such food, its use is
simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to
moral feeling -- killing.
- Leo Tolstoy
Was J.S. Bach human? Glenn Gould does this too fast.
