“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”

“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”

“Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat?Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.”

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”

“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”

“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.”

“I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat”