Vegan Quotations

My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.

I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.

I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.

I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me!

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

Being vegan just gives you such great karma.

I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

I transitioned to being a vegan slowly. I took out beef and chicken first and did research on alternative forms of protein. Then after a few months, I gave up something else but added in new things. You need to bring in new food when you take away the old food you are giving up. Learn about what foods you should be eating.

I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.

Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.

I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.

I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

I like quinoa. I like gingerbread. I feel they should be kept separate. I'm not in favor of this thing of making kind of raw, vegan chocolate cake and saying it's as good as chocolate cake. I mean, just eat cake and be done with it. And then have a separate meal of quinoa.

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

The gaunt, unhealthy vegan is the muffin vegan. Bread and fries and processed veggie dogs. It's like, 'Hello? Did you eat your vegetables?'

I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.

I don't go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn't eat meat. I just don't think that's terribly effective. I just try to tell people how I have personally benefitted from the vegan lifestyle.

Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.

No, I'm not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there's been a lot of proof that's come up over the last however many years, that you can't deny, I don't think, that meat or dairy aren't all that good for us.

I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

I'm a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.

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

My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan.

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

Cows scream louder than carrots.

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

My last girlfriend was a feminist, vegan punk who broke up with me because she thought I was too angry.

One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a Nutritarian diet and still live a long, healthy life.

I was a vegan for two years, and I really enjoyed it. Then, I got to a point in my life at which I wanted to do something else, so now I'm a vegetarian. You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.

I have been really enjoying making a project out of seeking out an extremely healthy diet of raw, organic, vegan foods - and I plan on continuing to do so.

We need radical dietary improvement, and the earlier in life that change is made, the better. Just following a vegan diet or eating a few more vegetables is not enough.

Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.

Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"

I'm a vegan, but I like to look good, too.

I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

I'm not a true vegan.

Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful.

There's already been some trouble for Osama bin Laden in the afterlife. There was a mix up and he was greeted by 72 vegans.

I am a vegan out of my love and respect for animals, as well as respect for myself.

The participants in the study ate a vegan diet and ate as many fruits, vegetables, whole grains and healthy foods as they wanted and they didn't feel hungry and lost weight.

I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.

It's just another misguided publicity stunt by PETA to create a vegan society. KFC is very committed to the humane treatment of chickens and we're very proud of our industry leading animal welfare guidelines.

I'm not telling you, 'Never eat a hamburger.' Just eat the good ones with real beef, you know, like the ones from that mom-and-pop diner down the street, ... And it's so good that when you take a bite out of that burger, you just know somewhere in the world a vegan is crying.

If you're in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I'm not remotely laddish. I'm a grown-up. I'm vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume.

When travelling, I make a point of eating a proper diet no matter where I am in the world. It is getting much easier to eat a vegetarian or vegan based diet.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great!

If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

I'm a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.

I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you were an apostate. Then I was a dance music enthusiast, and if you weren't a dance music enthusiast, you were an apostate. I was carnivore, and if you were a vegan, I didn't want to talk to you. Then I was vegan, and if you were a carnivore I didn't want to talk to you.

I like being vegan, I think it's good for my health.

Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

For many of us, it's too difficult to jump in to vegan full on because it's just so different than the way we grew up eating. But if we take small steps - like replacing cow's milk with almond or soy milk, or using veggie sausage instead of sausage made from animals - we can keep enjoying the things we grew up loving, just better versions of them.

If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned.

Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.

Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, Erin McKenna's donuts are the best I've had in 20 years, without exception.

I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

I make a vegan baked ziti. And even though that doesn't sound enjoyable, it really is.

What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

Vegans are murderers, just like everyone else.

I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.

None so blind as those who will not see.

It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them.

A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

I have a dog as well, and I'm not a vegan or anything. But I needlepoint and I have a cat, so it's not boding well.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

I eat mostly vegan, try to get enough sleep. For me, that's really critical.

Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.

It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that's the only difficult part, finding shoes that don't have leather on them.

Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell 'Boo' out the window.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

I became a vegan because I'm better than you

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.