“My nightmares relate all of man's inhumanity to man---to our willing acceptance of cruelty to the other animals. ”

“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel”

“In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.”

“We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.”

“Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.”