Skip to content

Human beings are meant to eat vegetarian food. The tiger does not come to eat your fruits. His prescribed food is animal flesh. But man's food is vegetables, fruits, grains, and milk products. So how can you say that animal killing is not a sin?

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Another quote →

Topics

Food

More quotes by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

If the state is regulated by the above process, naturally there will be God consciousness everywhere.

Actually, it doesn't matter – Krishna or Christ – the name is the same. The main point is to follow the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures that recommend chanting the name of God in this age.

Generally when a woman is attacked by a man -- whether her husband or some other man -- she enjoys the attack, being too lusty.

One can attain salvation simply by chanting the holy name of the Lord.

Think of Krishna always and try to work sincerely, and everything will come automatically.

All A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada quotes →

You may also like

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman (1903)

If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.

Michio Kushi Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994)

Vegetarianism is an ideal way to actualize the Torah's vision of a world in which the divine spark in all creation is respected and revered.

Bonnie Koppell

Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.

Thomas Berry

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.