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In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same; no recognition of rights -- only murder in one form or another. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

Quotes on Vegetarianism

“Pleasure from pain is uniquely human. No other animal willingly easts such foods when there are alternatives. Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans—language, rationality, culture, and so on. I’d stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.”

Paul Bloom in How Pleasure Works.

Veggie Quote

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. -Milan Kundera, novelist, playwright, and poet

Queer Quotes

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

--Derek Jarman

I'd add that we're not yet at a place where we can get rid of labels, but I'm hopeful that we will some day... 

Quote on Vegetarianism

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants. --Gandhi

Queer Quote

If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic." --Shelly Roberts

Quote on Vegetarianism

For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, /and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here; / We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her.

--Lord Byron

Vegetarian Quote

For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. --Pythagoras

Queer Quotes

I’ll be teaching some of Allen Ginsburg’s poetry this year and of course we’ll be discussing the relationship between his queerness and his creativity. I like this quote:

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. --Allen Ginsberg

I think we should all be putting our queer shoulders to the wheel!

Queer Quotes

“When someone asks me, “are gay rights civil rights?” my answer is always, “Of course, they are.” Civil rights are positive legal prerogatives: the right to equal treatment before the law. These are the rights shared by everyone. There is no one in the United States who does not, or should not, enjoy or share in enjoying these rights. Gay and lesbian rights are not special rights in any way. It isn’t “special” to be free from discrimination. It is an ordinary, universal entitlement of citizenship.” --NAACP National Chairman Julian Bond

Queer Quotes

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group. We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say “common struggle” because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination. -- Coretta Scott King

Queer Quotes

Besides the quotes on vegetarianism, I thought I could do a few queer quotes too. This one I found on http://twitter.com/#!/quotablyqueer

For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian. --Mabel Maney

Quotes on Vegetarianism

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"

--k.d. lang

(This quote nicely combines the veggie and the dyke!)

Quotes on Vegetarianism

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
--Paul McCartney

Quotes on Vegetarianism

How can you eat anything with eyes?

Will Kellog

Quotes on Vegetarianism

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

--Leo Tolstoy

Quotes on Vegetarianism

“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.”

--Thomas Edison

Quotes on Vegetarianism

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? --Jeremy Bentham

Quote on Vegetarianism

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. -Leonardo da Vinci

Quote on Vegetarianism

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." --Abraham Lincoln