Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
. . . . we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.
I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt. . . we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.
The world will be changed by western women.
Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.
The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.
I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the lizard. Gazing ath the water at a pike, I become the pike.