All poetry is misrepresentation.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

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.

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

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

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.