Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

It is as it is. Betren son of Bromwell Defender of Delmarath

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.

I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that's right now.

Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.

We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.