When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

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.

To be considerate of othersIs for the way of the wiseThere’s more fighters than loversLeaving us with blackened eyes

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.