We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her