If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

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.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

If fear can prevent us from potential vital danger, it can also be lethal – kills our dreams, chances, personal development and passion, prevent us from living our life at maximum.

So Stephanie.. you wanna say let the bodies hit the floor... I would say... let the boobies hit the floor!

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.