The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

I'll look to the crossAs my failure is lostIn the light ofYour glorious grace

All the humanity (Not the people!), are incrediable. What makes them incrediable is the way of thinking, the way of solving!

Celebrate your achievements, but never let them sink you into the pool of complacency.

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.