One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.

The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know.