“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”
“A day will come in which men will look upon an animal’s murder the same way they look today upon a man’s murder.”
“King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth.”
“One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.”
“My body is not a tomb for animals.”
“Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.”
“Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.”
“Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.”
“Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.”
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