Decimus Junius Juvenal Quotes

For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one.

I just don't like killing creatures.

Cannibals are not vegetarians; they too are humanitarians.

As a society are we going to murder people to show that murder is wrong

I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

No one can demand that you be neutral toward the crime of genocide. If there is a judge in the whole world who can be neutral toward this crime, that judge is not fit to sit in judgment.

No man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime… It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed.

I have fought corruption.

There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.

In 'Maatr,' we do not justify taking the law into our hands. That's not the right thing to do. We are not promoting that.

Vegetarianism is the best way of expressing love for animals.

I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The rest of us enjoyed eating - on special occasions - chicken or fish or mutton.

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

I can't even kill a lobster without saying a Hail Mary for it.

I did sacrifice a goat. I know that's probably a quibble in the mind of most Americans.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.