By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant….

To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish….

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they….

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals..

The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonst….

I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior spe….

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the ba….

The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone els….

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to ….

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans..

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?.

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slav….

I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals..

The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all..

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel doe….

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century..

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over..