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

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

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

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.