I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

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.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Where love is deep, much can be accomplished.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.