Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important, in the long run, to get many people taking steps in the right direction than to have fewer achieving the ideal.

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like cosmetics, food coloring, and floor polishes. Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market? Don't we already have an excess of most of these products? Who benefits from their introduction, except the companies that hope to profit from them?

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.