{"quotes":[{"text":"This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.","author":"John Davies of Hereford","tags":["cooking","eating","famine","food","meat-is-murder","pestilence","sword","taste","vegan","vegetarian","war"],"id":11873,"author_id":"John+Davies+of+Hereford"},{"text":"The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.","author":"Brandi L. Bates","tags":["affluence","ascension","atlanta","belize","brandi-bates","human-nature","knowledge","locs","love","luxury","mindfulness","motivation","natural-hair","new-thought","quotes","science","success","vegan","wisdom","women-of-color"],"id":15547,"author_id":"Brandi+L.+Bates"},{"text":"I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.","author":"Lake Bell","tags":["home","garbage","vegan "],"id":16057,"author_id":"Lake+Bell"},{"text":"Plants are not cognizant. When we cut a leaf, we assume that the plant is suffering. But that's our own anthropomorphism about what's going on.","author":"Daniel Chamovitz","tags":["cognizant","consciousness","pain","plant-based-diet","plants","vegan","veganism"],"id":17755,"author_id":"Daniel+Chamovitz"},{"text":"Humans don’t just kill to survive. Sometimes, they kill out of rage. And they don’t just eat to survive; sometimes, they eat when their belly is already full. They are violent and greedy. They aren’t like any of the other beasts in the forest; they want to own it all.","author":"Mark Van Steenwyk","tags":["animals","vegan"],"id":20807,"author_id":"Mark+Van+Steenwyk"},{"text":"The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a matter only of arranging and deepening current views of good and evil, but also of expanding and extending these. A man is really ethical only when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to succour, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves sympathy as valuable in itself, nor how far it is capable of feeling. To him life as such is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and to breathe stifling air, rather than to see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings.","author":"Albert Schweitzer","tags":["compassion","ethical","ethics","vegan","veganism"],"id":23047,"author_id":"Albert+Schweitzer"},{"text":"Mogo living brings about true freedom. When you have the inner conviction to do the most good and the least harm, you are free to say no to media, social, and peer pressures. You are free from a nagging sense that your life does not have value or meaning. You are free to imagine and then create a truly successful (in the deepest meaning on the word) life. You are free to be at peace with yourself and all those whom your life touches.","author":"Zoe Weil","tags":["compassion","education","freedom","good","harm","humane","media","mogo","pressures","social","vegan"],"id":29493,"author_id":"Zoe+Weil"},{"text":"Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.","author":"Rip Esselstyn","tags":["cats","food","vegan"],"id":32664,"author_id":"Rip+Esselstyn"},{"text":"Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision:'Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it. These slogans have a long history. After being used to justify slave traders, ruthless industrialists, and contractors who had found that the most economically 'realistic' method of cleaning a chimney was to force a small child to climb it, they have now been passed on, like an heirloom, to the factory farmers. 'We mustn't be sentimental' tries to persuade us that factory farming isn't, in fact, cruel. It implies that the whole problem had been invented by our sloppy imaginations.","author":"Peter Cox","tags":["animal-rights","cognitive-dissonance","factory-fans","factory-farming","meat-industry","sentimental","slavery","vegan"],"id":36797,"author_id":"Peter+Cox"},{"text":"I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders.' Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.","author":"Davey Havok","tags":["arachnid","arachnids","bugs","cows","death","debate","insects","meat","murder","religion","spider","spiders","steak","vegan","vegetarian"],"id":51261,"author_id":"Davey+Havok"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":130,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}