The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

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.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.

You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.