This page is here to help inspire and educate people about the benefits of adopting a vegan lifestyle. "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." ~ Albert Einstein
"I have since an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
"It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"The Gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies; they are the trees and the plants and the seeds." ~ Plato, Greek philosopher
"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
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites, or women for men." ~ Alice Walker, American author, The Color Purple
"Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals."
~ Victor Hugo
