When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.