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• Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add,…
• I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact…
• I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill…
• The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad…
• In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the…
• The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may…
• The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.
• To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed…

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