She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will….

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, Septemb….

You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that at each moment each one of u….

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law..

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet ….

[Hariharan is] an outstanding writer..

Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, i….

They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? Wh….

...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being abl….

His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he ….

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me..

The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared….

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like fallin….

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice..

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the over….

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering..

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself..

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?.

Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for its life. The whole of the be….

I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring en….

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals..