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| My wife,
Kimora, once told me while we were watching The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre that that's a vegetarian movie. The way that woman was
screaming, "Aaaahhh," and she's running away that's how every animal
you eat is running for his life ... |
Simmons, Russell |
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| ...and we
have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we
generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate
calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the
happiness of becoming our sustenance. |
Hawthorne, Nathanial |
American novelist, a founder of American literary
romanticism |
1804 |
1864 |
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| A mind of
the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. |
Shaw, George Bernard |
playwright, Nobel prize 1925 |
1856 |
1950 |
vegetarian |
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| A Society
of Three Legged Animals: for those who love meat but don't want to
kill. |
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| Deer
hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. |
Gilbert, William S. |
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| Each chef
in this murder mystery dies in the way he prepares his premier dish.
Thus one is dropped like a lobster into boiling water. Another is
sliced and diced etc. |
Screenwriter |
"Who Killed the Chefs of Europe?" |
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| Edith
Bunker: Archie.. do you want eggs for breakfast? Archie: I'm not
going to eat anything that was in a cow's mouth. Fix me eggs, Edith. |
Bunker, Archie and Edith |
TV characters |
1970 |
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| Ever
occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals
suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't
vote. |
Harvey, Paul |
Radio personality |
1918 |
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| For Folks
Who Eat (re cod liver oil, liver etc.) Eating liver out of a cow's
body is like eating the filter out of a car. |
Gregory, Dick |
author of Cookin With Mother Nature
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1932 |
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| He is a
heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit. |
Shakespeare |
Twelfth Night |
1564 |
1616 |
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| He was a
vegetarian most of his life until as an elder statesman he traveled
to Paris: Venison and venery defeated me. |
Franklin, Benjamin |
U.S. statesman |
1706 |
1790 |
mostly vegetarian |
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| Human
beings are the only animals of which I am throughly and cravenly
afraid. |
Shaw, George Bernard |
playwright, Nobel prize 1925 |
1856 |
1950 |
vegetarian |
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| Hunting
is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in
the game. |
Rodriguez, Paul |
comedian |
1997 |
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| I am not
a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I
hate plants. |
Brown, A. Whitney |
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| I ask
people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say
because it's such a beautiful animal. Well, I think my mother is
attractive, but I just keep photographs of her. |
DeGeneres, Ellen |
actress, comedian U.S. |
1999 |
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| I never
thought much of the courage of a lion-tamer. Inside the cage he is
at least safe from people. |
Shaw, George Bernard |
playwright, Nobel prize 1925 |
1856 |
1950 |
vegetarian |
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| I will
not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God
knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate
me. |
Poulos, Alex |
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| I would
not want to get to know a pig very well if I intended to eat him. |
Leigh, Pat |
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| If I'm
lucky enough to get to heaven I might find that God is a beaver or a
burro. What a sad world it would be if only the two-legged were
here. We have established a Let's Hunt The Hunters Club.. and we
have certain rules: a. we're only doing it for their good.. to cull
the herd b. we don't interfere with their mating season in parked
cars c. we don't encourage anyone to mount a hunter on the hood d.
in wall mounting you may include the cap and the jacket.
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Amory, Cleveland |
Harvard Crimson editor, TV Guide,
Parade columnist |
1917 |
1998 |
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| If you
pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. |
Twain, Mark |
wrote Tom Saywer & Huckleberry Finn |
1835 |
1910 |
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| In
studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals,
and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to
me. |
Twain, Mark |
wrote Tom Saywer & Huckleberry Finn |
1835 |
1910 |
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| Lord,
help me to become the person my dog believes me to be. |
Martin, Canon Charles |
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of Washington, D.C. |
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| Man is
the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims
he intends to eat until he eats them. |
Butler, Samuel |
English author, Note-Books, 1912 |
1835 |
1902 |
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| Meat is
dirty. I wouldn't touch a hot dog without a condom on it. |
Maher, Bill |
comedian |
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| Men hunt
I think maybe because they have something wrong with thier own
equipment and they need something else to shoot. |
Anderson, Pamela |
TV, movie personality, Canadian |
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| My
illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a
whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. |
Fields, W. C. |
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| Nothing
spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through
your spaghetti. |
Davis, Jim |
cartoonist, U.S. |
1995 |
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| Prince
Charming is very nice and very honest and very confident in who he
is and funny and knows how to have a kick-ass fun time. Is willing
to melt away so that nothing else exists in the world except himself
and his princess and loves food and cats and every life form except
human beings which is not necessary. |
Silverstone, Alicia |
American actress |
1997 |
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| The
fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether
you are at the right or wrong end of a gun. |
Wodehouse, P. G. |
English author, Jeeves |
1881 |
1975 |
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| Tongue -
a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line
between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. |
Ekstrom, Bob |
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Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter." |
Rooney, Andy |
TV, 60 Minutes |
1995 |
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| Why does
Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my
fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow
learner. |
Montgomery, Lynda |
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1997 |
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| 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. |
Diamond, Harvey |
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1988 |
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| You're
thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is
going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your
health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to
kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body
is not blocking my driveway. |
Adams, Scott |
creator of the cartoon Dilbert |
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| People
often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a
justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic,
we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people,
since this has also been done since the earliest of times. |
Singer, Isaac Bashevis |
Polish author, Nobel prize, 1978 |
1904 |
1991 |
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| I don't
eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or
egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good practice to
eat anything that might run away from you. |
Simmons, Russell |
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| If we cut
up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are
backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only
logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalist for
the same reasons. |
Lewis, C. S. |
Irish author, novels and essays |
1898 |
1963 |
Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at
Cambridge |
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| One
farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it
furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously
devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material
of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which,
with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in
spite of every obstacle. |
Thoreau, Henry David |
essayist and poet. Wrote "Civil Disobedience" |
1817 |
1862 |
"Disobedience," influenced Gandhi & Martin Luther
King Jr. |
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| The sort
of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase
one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is
precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated
at the public expense, and not fostered. |
Mencken, H.L. |
Journalist, quoted in N.Y. Evening Mail, 1918 |
1880 |
1956 |
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| The wild,
cruel animal is not behind the bars of a cage. He is in front of it. |
Munthe, Axel |
Swedish writer and physician |
1857 |
1949 |
youngest MD created at Montpellier, France |
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| This is
one of many ways vivisectors try to get their promised cures to
humans' illnesses AND money for them: "Urination: find out why an
adult male dog lifts his leg to urinate while a female squats." |
National Anti-Vivisection Society |
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| The Anti-Vivisector
does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take
chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge
by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal
methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from
the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving
off two dogs or American tourists. |
Shaw, George Bernard |
Irish playwright, Nobel prize 1925 |
1856 |
1950 |
vegetarian |
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| We have
enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our
distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if
they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil
in human form. |
Inge, Rev. William Ralph |
Anglican priest, Prof. Divinity, Oxford |
1860 |
1954 |
Outspoken Essays, 1922 |
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