100+ Vegan Quotes to Really Make You Think

I have put together an ultimate list of vegan quotes to hopefully inspire you or really make you think. From short vegan quotes to funny vegan quotes and all the amazing ones in between.

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Short Vegan Quotes

1. “A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.” – George Bernard Shaw

2. “Love animals, eat plants, be kind.” – Anon                                                                                               

3. “Veganism is not a sacrifice. It is a joy.” – Gary L Francione

4. “Violence begins with the fork.”- Mahatma Gandhi

5. “How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?”
– Tom Regan

6. “Why just say grace when you can show it?”- Matthew Scully

7. “How can you eat anything with eyes?” – Will Kellogg

8. “You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”- Robert M Sapolsky

9. “Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.”- Gary L Francione

10. “Fed by plants, fed up with the world”- Evan Baldonado

11. “Animals are here with us, not for us.” – Anon

12. “Look a pig in her eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon.”- Mango Wodzak

13. “Vegan is just pure love. Love for animals, love for the planet, and love for yourself.”- Mischa Temaul

14. “That animals can’t be moral agents doesn’t seem to be relevant to their status as moral patients.”- Alastair Norcross

15. “The life of any animal is no less precious to the animal, than your life is precious to you.”- Mango Wodzak

16. “Being an animal lover means not eating meat.” – Anon

17. “My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”

– Leonardo Da Vinci

18. “Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.”
– Ryan Phillips

19. “Don’t do nothing because you can’t do everything. Do something. Anything.” – Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

20. “Embrace compassion without exception.”- Dr. Janice Anderson & Kiersten Anderson

21. “Veganism is not a pledge of perfection; it is a promise to try your best. – Mark Hawthorne

22. “Anymals do not exist to satisfy our desires and pleasures.”- Lisa Kemmerer

23. “Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don’t align with my values.” – Cory Booker

24. “Being vegan is not a trend, it’s an awakening.” – Anon

25. “The fact that creatures cannot act morally toward us in no way diminishes our ability to act morally toward them.” – Matthew Scully

26. “You can’t do anything violent humanely.” – James Wildman

27. “To get mud off your hands, use soap and water. To get blood off your hands, go vegan.” – John Sakars

28. “Don’t ask me why I’m vegan, ask yourself why you’re not.” – Anon

29. “Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.”- GaryLFrancione

30. “No animals needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.”- Howard Lyman

31. “Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, ‘My appetite is more important than your suffering’?” – Moby

32. “Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.”- Paul Watson

33. “The more we understand about life, in general, the more we value the lives of all creatures. – Paul

Johnson

34. “World peace begins in the kitchen.” – Anon

35. “Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.”
– Brenda Davis R D

36. “When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.” – Paul McCartney

37. “I am a vegan because I don’t want to support the cruel industry that goes on on farms everyday.”- Zoe Rosenberg

38. “I don’t see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.” – Russell Brand          

39. “The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?” – Jeremy Bentham

Funny Vegan Quotes

40. “People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.”- Pino Caruso

41. “I could never go vegan – said almost every vegan (before going vegan)” – Anon

42. “Face your true self. Your reaction when facing any animal is much more likely to be ‘Ahh, cute!’ than ‘Yum, dinner!”- Mango Wodzak

43. “Spread hummus, not hate.” – Anon

44. “Animals are not ingredients.” – Barbara Thompson

45. “Humans were meant to eat meat to survive? Do you know you’re talking to a living vegan?” – Anon

46. “Yes I’m a vegan. No, I don’t only eat lettuce.” – Anon

47. “Animals are my friends. And I don’t eat my friends.” – George Bernard Shaw

48. “My food is grown, not born.” – Anon

49. “The most difficult part of being vegan is waking up at 5 Am to milk the almonds.”

– Anon

50. “Fur coats are worn by beautiful animals and ugly people.” – Anon

51. “Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals.”- Ellen DeGeneres

52. “All we are saying, is give peas a chance.” – Anon

53. “I’m a social vegan. I avoid meet.” – Anon

54. “I look this good because I’m vegan.” – Anon

Inspiring Vegan Quotes

55. “There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.”- Will Tuttle

56. “All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property”- Gary L Francione

57. “To kill an animal in order to satisfy your nutritional desires, not your nutritional needs, that seems to me to be completely unacceptable.”- David Benatar

58. “I really don’t think it’s a case of not caring at all about animals. Instead, I think it’s a case of caring so much about one’s own self that everything else becomes immaterial.”- Micheal Slusher

59. “Yes, being a vegan is about living a healthier happier lifestyle. But it’s also about being a spiritually evolved person who is invested more in the nurturing of life than in the perversion of life. We can get all of the nutrition we need and more from the utilization of plants. Therefore people are eating animals for pleasure and not for nutritional necessity. It is uncivilized to be killing sentient beings and eating their flesh for pleasure. And it’s even more uncivilized to be rejoicing in that and normalizing it like it’s okay. There must be some super advanced aliens out there looking at earth like wtf are these humans doing.”- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

60. “Once you come to terms with why you don’t eat cats, dogs, monkeys, and dolphins, you will begin to understand why I don’t eat cows, pigs, chickens, and lambs.”- Edward Sanchez

61. “We don’t live like our ancestors did, so why should we base our diet and ethics on how they may or may not have lived? Let’s evolve into a more peaceful, compassionate species and respect all life forms.”- Mango Wodzak

62. “If you don’t like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.” – Johnny Depp

63. “A movement is always made up of individuals, and it’s the cumulative effort to these individuals that creates change.” – Earthling Ed

64. “Don’t wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.”- Sharon Gannon

65. “When you stop eating meat, you feel light from inside. When you abstain from inflicting cruelty on animals, you will no longer be an agent of pain.”- Shivanshu K Srivastava

66. “It’s not that there are no differences between human and non-human animals, any more than there are no differences between black people and white people, freeborn citizens and slaves, men and women, Jews and gentiles, gays or heterosexuals. The question is rather: are they morally relevant differences? This matters because morally catastrophic consequences can ensue when we latch on to a real but morally irrelevant difference between sentient beings.”- David Pearce

67. “Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.” – Peter Singer

68. “Cruelty: Not only the willful causing of unnecessary suffering, but the indifference to it.”- Jonathan Safran Foer

69. “Who are we to say dogs and cats have more rights than cows and pigs. They’re all conscious. They feel the same. They hurt the same. God help us understand!”- Izey Victoria Odiase

70. “Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”
– Gary L Francione

71. “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

72. “This touches on the issue of how vegans should handle the caveman argument. Many of us are tempted to strain credulity and torture the evidence to ‘prove’ humans are ‘naturally’ vegan. This is a trap, and one into which carnists (especially paleo-dieters) would love us to fall; the evidence isn’t on our side. There’s no doubt that hominids ate meat…. The argument for veganism has always been primarily ethical, and ought to remain that way. It’s based on a concern for the future, not an obsession about the past.”- Jack Norris

73. “Modern industrial agriculture, aka factory farming, may well be one of the greatest crimes in history with trillions of souls lost.”- Michael Corthell

74. “If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them ‘compassionately’. Just stop exploiting them.”- Gary L Francione

75. “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

76. “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.” – Linda McCartney

77. “I’m a vegan. I respect the environment and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.” -Jared Leto

78. “Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable” – Gary L Francione

79. “I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”

– George Bernard Shaw

80. “I remember looking at the fear in her eyes. How could someone be so cruel? I thought as the hens cried. When will people realize, that other animals have just as much the right as we do.”- Zoe Rosenberg

81. “Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.” – Chris Hedges

82. “We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.”- John Chrysostom

83. “The power brokers of factory farming know that their business model depends on consumers not being able to see (or hear about) what they do.”- Jonathan Safran Foer

84. “Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It’s because they know what it’s like to be treated like an animal.” – Chuck Palahniuk

85. “Being vegan isn’t about restricting oneself in any way, it’s simply about ceasing to take things which clearly are not ours.”- Mango Wodzak

86. “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

87. “Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.” – T Casey Brennan

88. “Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.”- Karen Davis

89. “The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.”- Gene Baur

90. “If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.” – Gary L Francione

91. “We have destroyed millions of years of evolution in the blink of an eye, quite literally bulldozing our way around this finite planet.”- Ed Winters

92. “Animals are both “out of place” when they transgress the spatial regulations of captive places, and “out of place” within these spaces where they are deprived of a natural environment and life.”
– Sarat Colling

93. “For an ethical vegan it doesn’t matter when we started eating meat and for how long, as animal exploitation is not avoided because this is the ‘natural’ thing to do, but the ‘moral’ thing to do. However, human biology helps vegans to thrive, rather than hinders them, which explains all the health benefits reported when people switch to a vegan diet.” – Jordi Casamitjana

94. “You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.”- Gary L Francione

95. “Let’s try something more challenging: for instance, being humane. Compassion is the only way to maintain peace in the world.”- Shivanshu K. Srivastava

96. “Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice” – Gary L Francione

97. “Diet-a choice we make every day, several times a day-determines the size of our environmental footprint.” – Lisa Kemmerer

98. “Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied – they don’t after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.”- Morrissey

99. “How much longer will man continue to pimp for the gluttony of death, his most insidious, implacable, and eternal foe?”- Percy Bysshe Shelley

100. “Remember at all time that just as your life is precious to you, so too is all life precious to those living one.”- Mango Wodzak,

101. “The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.”- Robert Cheeke

102. “Veganism is a brilliant approach for elevating human consciousness and avoiding the energy of death and degeneration associated with killing animals for food, which enters us when we eat their flesh and blood.”- Gabriel Cousens

103. “We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans however “humanely” we treat them.”- Gary L Francione

104. “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

– Albert Einstein

105. “To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death however “humane” is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.” – Gary L. Francione

106. “I love animals. All animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog – or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.” – Peter Dinklage

Phew, I hope you enjoyed this epic list of inspiring vegan quotes. I thoroughly enjoyed putting these together, I particularly liked the funny quotes because I love a good pun! 😁

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