Quote people on the topic of vegetarianism.
Good selection of quotations and aphorisms about vegetarianism and animal welfare.
Nail Gaffanov.g.Nefteyugansk collected.
Sayings of great people on vegetarianism
In Genesis (1.29) God Himself says: "I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the whole earth and every tree that has fruit of a tree yielding seed - to you it shall be for meat."
Significant words, which says God, referring to the entire people of Israel: "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?: I am full of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts, and the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. : And when ye spread forth your hands, I close my eyes on you, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. "
(Isaiah, 1.11, 1.15)
"Then said Daniel Melzar, whose chief of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Miailu and Aza-theory:" Make the experience of thy servants: for ten days and let them give us pulse to eat and water to drink. And then let him be looked upon before thee, the children who eat the king's meat, and then deal with thy servants, as you'll see. " He listened to them in this and proved them ten days. By the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and body were full of all the children who ate royal dainties. ... And God gave these four young men knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. "
(The Book of Daniel 1:11-17).
In the Dhammapada, in anticipation of possible deviations from its teachings, the Buddha says: "There will be fools, which in future will say that I'm allowed to have meat food himself ate meat, but also know that (:) I have no man to eat meat do not allow right now and never will in the future, anywhere, under any circumstances and in any form, it is once and for all banned for one and all. "
Another verse of the Dhammapada, "warns of the sad consequences of eating meat:" Those who hope to find happiness in tormenting or killing other living beings, which also tend to happiness, closes his way to happiness in the next life. "
"Killing animals for food, man suppresses in himself the highest spiritual feelings - compassion and pity for other living beings, like him - and, stepping over himself, hardens his heart."
Leo Tolstoy
"It is hoped that the land reign of peace and prosperity, if our bodies are the living graves in which the buried dead animals?"
Leo Tolstoy
"When all the landed property of this universe will be inherited by all creatures, you can find some justification for a system in which to someone directs the flow of unprecedented wealth, while others die from what they lack, and a handful of grain
Sarkar.
"Animals - these are my friends ... and I do not eat my friends. This is terrible! Not only the suffering and death of animals, but the fact that people unnecessarily suppresses a higher spiritual treasure - the sympathy and compassion for living beings, like myself, trampling their own feelings and become violent. " We pray God to illumine our way: "Give us light, O all-good Lord!" The nightmare of war we do not give sleep, but the teeth have animals dead flesh.
George Bernard Shaw
"In my opinion, vegetarian lifestyle, thanks to its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would have a most beneficial effect on most of humanity."
Albert Einstein
"It is true that man - a king of animals, in their cruelty, he exceeds them. We are living through the death of others. We just cannot cemetery. From early childhood, I refused to meat consumption and the time will come when people will look at the killing of the animal as he now looks at the murder of a man. "
Leonardo da Vinci
"Peace on earth, or any other world is a huge dependence on the state of mind. Vegetarianism gives the correct mental state for the world .. . It carries the force of a better way of life that if it became public, could lead to a better, fairer and more peaceful community of nations. "
U Nu (prime minister of Burma.)
