As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.