If you're not going to post quotes, get the fuck off the quotes thread. 

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.
—T. Casey Brennan (1948–)

Wow, you're getting that angry over something so small?
No need to swear at people but if we're going to get like that you can choke on my dick yeah?

As for quotes:

“But no punishment ought to be allotted merely to this purpose(revenge), because (setting aside its effects in the way of control) no such pleasure is ever produced by punishment as can be equivalent to the pain”-Bentham

" Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers? "-carlin

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? "-carlin

“But as the king of the vultures would be no less bent upon preying upon the flock than any of the minor harpies, it was indispensable to be in a perpetual attitude of defence against his beak and claws. The aim, therefore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community; and this limitation was what they meant by liberty.”-mill

"capitalism doesn't work, neither does communism, what we need is a socialism under a benevolent dictator, like santa"-pagan wanderer lu

"If you have to crash land, do it with flair." - Super Grover

Actually that sounds like something Gonzo the Great would say.

Someone once attributed to PT Barnum, "If you're gonna fail, fail big." I think it's apocryphal but I love it.

Theo, that second quote made me laugh. As a child of the 60s with much older siblings, I absorbed the "live fast die young" idea, and finally discovered why (at 17) I said I would probably die by the age of 27. (Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison et al: all 27. But then my name doesn't begin with J and I'm not a rock and roll legend.) I was discussing this with an American friend who lives here, several years ago. Since then, every birthday she calls and asks me, "Still gonna die young?"

Yeah...I may be 80 when I check out but I intend to die young.

Yabbit, I've always been of the same mind :) live fast, die young, better to burn out than fade away etc etc

But doing all of that in a completely rockstar fashion as late as possible suits me just fine :)

asleep on a sunbeam -  I guess it is a question of attachment, and I've always enjoyed the Buddhist thoughts about it.
But when something changes around an attachment, or breaks the attachment, and I feel that melancholia, I don't think it's always a negative thing or any will necessarily mean lasting dukkha. I think it's important. Because how can we know what we want, and that we're doing the right thing for us at this time if none of the choices we make are necessarily hard?

Also, less veg-related, but some of my favourite quotes of all time are from Jeanette Winterson's books. I think she's able to describe things in a way that expresses so much emotion that people often find hard to convey, and she does it so well.

"When I had regarded myself for the first time, I regarded the world & saw it to be more various & beautiful than I thought...I longed for feeling though I could not have told you that...we fear passion & laugh at too much love and those who love too much." (from The Passion)

More veg-related (this is from Art & Lies):

"Who controls whom? Is the market for me, or am I for the market? The human pig trussed up & sold in quarters off a greasy stall. Long pig, favourite delicacy of the market, never count the cost to the human soul."

And of course, it wouldn't be complete without a quote from Written on the Body:

"I had a steady heartbeat before I met you. I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut."

They must've been real f***ed off over in Corinth, don't you think? The postman going,

Come on, one of you Corinthians, gotta take this letter.

Oh, f*** off! That's from old mourner St. Paul, isn't it? No I don't want it, I don't want it!

You gotta take it. Come on, I gotta have a signature for it.

Oh, f*** off! It says the CorinthianS, plural. Ask someone else. Oh, give it here. What does it say? Don't do this, don't do that. Never put a sock in a toaster? Jam on a magnet, Ooh, hes lost his brain, ain't he? Whose idea was it to be a pen-pal with St. Paul anyway? That f***ing backfired, didn't it? Hes supposed to stop doing it at about 15, hes been doing it for years. Come on, Corinthians, come on, general meeting. Were gonna write a letter back to him, stop all this rubbish.

The Corinthians Letter Back to St. Paul - Chapter 1- Verses 1 to a million. More letters to follow. Tuesday 28th... of something. Dear Paul - (Saint, apparently), f*** OFF! Just fu- who are you? Why do you keep sending us letters? You arrogant bastard, you send a letter to an entire city! What do you want us to do, put these up in a board or something? Just f*** off! You're coming on like Alistair Cooke, for f***s sake! ˜Never put a sock in a toaster,whats all that about? You daft git.

Love and kisses, the Corinthians.

To Saint Paul ...  OUTSIDE Corinth.

- Eddie Izzard

"Religion, legend, myth, fable... at some point you are left with the truth."

I can't get the trees...AH DAMN, I WILL KILL EVERYONE!

He's doing some serious television role now which is possibly why he looks and sounds different - he was representing the tv show rather than himself?

Totally unrelated to anything at all but I love it:
Bette Davis in Cabin in the Cotton (1937): "I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."

Glorious brushoff because it's such a nonsequitur there really is no comeback to it.