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.

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

The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.