"We cut the throat of a calf..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Youth is wasted on the young.”

“When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.”

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.”

“In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.”

“We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.”

“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?”

“Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?”

“Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.”

“A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers.”