Dada Vaswani Quotes

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

I hate to admit this, but I've never actually hit anyone. I don't even kill wasps or spiders. I'm pretty veggie as well. In fact, really, I'm New Age.

Lincoln and I were alike in that neither of us liked to hunt and fish. We didn’t like to kill anything.

We were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

The way I eat is a heavy statement on my belief system. I eat cruelty-free. It is my way of being able to take a stand against doing harm to any living creature.

Vegetarianism is the best way of expressing love for animals.

Of course black lives matter. All lives matter. I stopped eating meat because their lives matter to me. I don't think it's necessary for us to grow a cow to kill it.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

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

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

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.

I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.