I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.