Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.