Famous Vegetarians

Looking at the world's history, we find that many great scholars, philosophers, scientists, artists, writers, political and religious leaders of the world, were vegetarians.

Albert Einstein

"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind."

Benjamin Franklin

"Flesh eating is unprovoked murder."

Leorando da Vinci

"...Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places ! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat."

Henry David Thoreau

"I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.'

Gandhi

"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we cease to kill our fellow creature for the satisfaction of our bodily needs."

George Bernard Shaw

"We pray on Sundays that we may have light

To guide our footsteps on the path we tread;

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight,

And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead."

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