I Don't Care Whether Animals

Secrecy, Being An Instrument Of Conspiracy, Ought Never To Be The System Of A Regular Government.

I Don't Care Whether Animals Are Capable Of Thinking; All I Care About Is That They Are Capable Of Suffering!

The Offence Is What Is Improperly Called The Death Of An Infant, Who Has Ceased To Be, Before Knowing What Existence Is, A Result Of A Nature Not To Give The Slightest Inquietude To The Most Timid Imagination; And Which Can Cause No Regrets But To The Very Person Who, Through A Sentiment Of Shame And Pity, Has Refused To Prolong A Life Begun Under The Auspices Of Misery.

What Else Is It That Should Trace The Insuperable Line? Is It The Faculty Of Reason Or Perhaps The Faculty Of Discourse? But A Full-grown Horse Or Dog Is Beyond Comparison A More Rational, As Well As More Conversable Animal, Than An Infant Of A Day Or A Week Or Even A Month Old. But Suppose They Were Otherwise, What Would It Avail? The Question Is Not, Can They Reason?, Nor Can They Talk? But, Can They Suffer? Why Should The Law Refuse Its Protection To Any Sensitive Being? The Time Will Come When Humanity Will Extend Its Mantle Over Everything Which Breathes.

By Utility Is Meant That Property Is Any Object, Whereby It Tends To Produce Benefit, Advantage, Pleasure, Good, Or Happiness(all This In The Present Case Come To The Same Thing) Or (what Comes Again To The Same Thing) To Prevent The Happening Of Mischief, Pain, Evil Or Unhappiness To The Party Who Whose Is Considered: If That Party Be The Community In General, Then The Happiness Of The Community; If A Particular Individual; Then The Happiness Of That Individual