To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units, ' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Listen to your heart, it speaks, hear its words

Happiness lies within the heart.

Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster.

I’m starving to learn more about her. A new hunger that I know only she could satisfy.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

I'm a process server, so I have to wear a suit.