A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.