I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.

And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

Grace is free, but it's not cheap.

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap.