“All beings hate pains; therefore one should not kill them. This is the quintessence of wisdom: not to kill anything." Sutrakritanga (Jainism)

  “I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.”Mahatma Gandhi

 “He who does not value life does not deserve it.”Leonardo da Vinci

 “I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.”George Bernard Shaw

 “A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as well as that of his fellow man, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. “Dr Albert Sweitzer (1875-1965)

“Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages.”  Thomas Edison, inventor

“I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat...” The Dalai Lama

“In the land of the blind... One-eye doesn't eat meat ”^^