Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

My life carries its own meaning in itself.