70 Flesh Eating Quotes
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Famous Flesh Eating Quotes
Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. — Benjamin Franklin
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. — Guy de Maupassant
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! — Pythagoras
When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores. — William C. Roberts
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. — Rabindranath Tagore
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. — Stanislaw Lem
Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation. — Prince Philip
It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste. — Idi Amin
If someone hates your guts, feed it to them if someone loves your guts, they’re probably a zombie. — PewDiePie
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant. — Ingrid Newkirk
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals. — Philip Kapleau
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. — James Beard
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff. — Fergus Henderson
Short Flesh Eating Quotes
- A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. — Georges Bataille
- What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh. — Aesop
- A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. — George Bernard Shaw
- My body will not be a tomb for other creatures. — Leonardo da Vinci
- Slander is worse than cannibalism. — Saint John Chrysostom
- Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. — Marian Anderson
- Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts. — Jean-Paul Marat
- A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood. — Horace
- I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead. — Woody Allen
- I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti — Thomas Harris
Flesh Eating Image Quotes
People Writing About Flesh Eating
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Ingrid Newkirk |
80 | 817 |
 Benjamin Franklin |
1399 | 22156 |
 Guy de Maupassant |
74 | 1333 |
 Pythagoras |
158 | 4423 |
 Rabindranath Tagore |
425 | 8611 |
 Robert Louis Stevenson |
455 | 4638 |
More Flesh Eating Quotes
Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. — Sylvester Graham
'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh and pours out his blood, and nothing is lacking for the growth of his children — Clement of Alexandria
You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat. — Ha Jin
Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves — Norbert Wiener
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. — Jonathan Safran Foer
There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism. — Herbert M. Shelton
Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood. — Ellen G. White
"It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly." — L. Frank Baum
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Buddha
Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor. — Saint John Chrysostom
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. — Benjamin Franklin
Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air. — Sylvia Plath
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate? — Helen and Scott Nearing
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated. — Buddha
Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble. — Paul the Apostle
The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse; 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him' — Pope Pius XII
Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh. — Barbara Block
We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm dead and in a box in the dark dark ground, and all my various souls have died and I am nothing but insensible bones, something in the marrow will still feel yearning, desire persisting beyond flesh. — Charles Frazier
When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. — Benjamin Franklin
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit. — Plutarch
Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes. — Rick Riordan
They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience....And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros. — R. Trall
So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer. — Gary L. Francione
All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine. — Margaret Atwood
We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs. — Sharon Gannon
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun. — C. S. Lewis
I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people. — Stephen King
What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything. — Dominic Monaghan
Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing. — Anna Thomas
The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop. — Evelyn Waugh
Let take a cat, and foster her with milk And tender flesh, and make her couch of silk, And let her see a mouse go by the wall, Anon she leaveth milk and flesh, and all, And every dainty that is in that house, Such appetite hath she to eat the mouse. Lo, here hath kind her domination, And appetite banishes discretion. — Oswald Barron
There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak. — Gary L. Francione
Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act. — Philip Jose Farmer
Perhaps we invented the gods so that we could put the blame on them. They gave us permission to eat flesh. They gave us permission to play with unclean things. It's not our fault, it's theirs. We're just their children. — J. M. Coetzee
We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that. — Ingrid Newkirk
It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals. — Sathya Sai Baba
Our Lord Christ Himself strikes down our enemies through us, or in company with us. For he who eats Christ's flesh and drinks His blood abides with Christ and He in him. Therefore, when we overcome the enemies, it is the blood of Christ which overcomes, as it is written in Revelation: 'and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb' — Lorenzo Scupoli
It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us. — Martin Luther
Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists. — Stephen R. L. Clark
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. — Leo Tolstoy
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