Happy World Vegan Day! Happy Weltvegantag!

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.
Ellen DeGeneres

Alles, was der Mensch den Tieren antut, kommt auf den Menschen wieder zurück.
Pythagoras

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.
Linda McCartney

Es ist die größte Befleckung, Leben zu entreißen und edle Glieder hineinzuschlingen.
Empedokles

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Gary L. Francione

Sie sollen sich lieber an den gesunden Kohl und an Getreidebrei halten als an Fasane und Perlhühner.
Plinius der Ältere

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.
Plutarch

Es wird die Zeit kommen, in welcher wir das Essen von Tieren ebenso verurteilen, wie wir heute das Essen von unseresgleichen, die Menschenfresserei, verurteilen.
Leonardo da Vinci

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
George Bernard Shaw

Die fleischlose Diät ernährt einen Menschen vollständig, verlängert sein Leben und heilt solche Krankheiten oder beugt ihnen vor, welche wir der Schärfe oder Unreinheit des Blutes zuschreiben.
Albrecht von Haller

Violence begins with the fork.
Mahatma Gandhi

Die religiöse Ehrfurcht vor dem, was unter uns ist, umfasst natürlich auch die Tierwelt und legt dem Menschen die Pflicht auf, die unter ihm stehenden Geschöpfe zu ehren und zu schonen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe