Buddha Quotes

Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

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.

Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

I could never stop eating meat... I'm not a good person to talk about diets. If I had to only eat salads, I'd kill myself!

I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.

I felt that I was fooling myself eating meat considering my inability to kill an animal, so I just thought I'd better be honest to myself and stop eating meat.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

I'm close to being a vegan, but I'm not one, technically. I don't eat eggs, or nearly any dairy - no cheese or milk. I do eat honey, and a piece of milk chocolate here and there. It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that. I don't judge people who eat meat - that's not for me to say - but the whole thing just sort of bums me out.

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

Vegetarians in general don't like me.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

I'm technically a vegan, but I do eat egg if it's in things.

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.

By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.

I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.