How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

Who knows why men do anything?

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.