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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

The one thing I've learned exploring the deep is that you just can't even begin to imagine some of the bizarre creatures that are down there.

What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.