George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Vegetarian
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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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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.
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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.
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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night
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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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