A Quote by Leo Tolstoy

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy
Russian - Writer
September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910

I'm not going to comment on whether I support vegetarianism or non-vegetarianism; it's just that I feel I'm fit because I'm a vegetarian.

Sai Pallavi

I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a "panacea" for human ills; it is something much more rational - an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past.

Henry Stephens Salt

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

Dean Koontz

I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

Peter Burwash

Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan's heart.

Patricia A. McKillip

Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners, the arms race. There's so much going on in this world today, so much ignorance among people. That's not to say I'm not standing amongst everybody. But the point is, what can we do now? That's the thing about vegetarianism; it's an individual's decision and it's something you have control over. How many things do we really have control over?

River Phoenix

Humanitarianism is rude.

Fernando Pessoa

Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

Charles Colson

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Adolf Hitler

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Albert Schweitzer

Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.

Bret Stephens

The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.

Yip Man

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

Leo Tolstoy

... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

Mahatma Gandhi

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