I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.
VoltaireA clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
VoltairePeople must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.
Voltaire