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?

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

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.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.

To be prosperous you must discover your gifting’s, potentials and talents

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.