I found these at a community for veganism at LiveJournal. Words of wisdom.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties… The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. Charles Darwin

Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more. Franz Kafka

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places. Leonardo DaVinci

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love. Pythagoras

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

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder Benjamin Franklin

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. Paul McCartney

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

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. Gandhi

I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn’t a vegetarian long before I realized there’s something to that. I don’t think I would have worked for the past five years probably were it not for my vegetarian diet Bob Barker

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law. Christopher Walken

I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it’s degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins…. So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period. Andy Warhol

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. bibelcitat: Matteus 5:7

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature…We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters…and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. Jacques Cousteau

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t…The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. Mark Twain

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat Vincent Van Gogh

He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit. Shakespeare

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. Buddah Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.’ Elie Weisel

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

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. Abraham Lincoln

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Shame on such a morality that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun. Schopenhauer