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“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case. Most”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“So the researcher’s central dilemma exists in an especially acute form in psychology: either the animal is not like us, in which case there is no reason for performing the experiment; or else the animal is like us, in which case we ought not to perform on the animal an experiment that would be considered outrageous if performed on one of us. Another”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“We have still not answered the question of when an experiment might be justifiable. It will not do to say “Never!” Putting morality in such black-and-white terms is appealing, because it eliminates the need to think about particular cases; but in extreme circumstances, such absolutist answers always break down. Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong. If torture were the only way in which we could discover the location of a nuclear bomb hidden in a New York City basement and timed to go off within the hour, then torture would be justifiable.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“As this chapter has shown, we are in the midst of an emergency in which appalling suffering is being inflicted on millions of animals for purposes that on any impartial view are obviously inadequate to justify the suffering.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“The United States government continues to pour billions of dollars into research on cancer, while it also subsidizes the tobacco industry. Much of the research money goes toward animal experiments, many of them only remotely connected with fighting cancer—experimenters have been known to relabel their work “cancer research” when they found they could get more money for it that way than under some other label.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“Why should people be dying from an invariably fatal disease while a potential cure is tested on animals who do not normally develop AIDS anyway? The”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“Some discoveries would probably have been delayed, or perhaps not made at all; but many false leads would also not have been pursued, and it is possible that medicine would have developed in a very different and more efficacious direction, emphasizing healthy living rather than cure. In”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“The big corporations and those who must compete with them are not concerned with a sense of harmony among plants, animals, and nature.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“Now that we have understood the nature of speciesism and seen the consequences it has for nonhuman animals it is time to ask: What can we do about it? There are many things that we can and should do about speciesism. We should, for instance, write to our political representatives about the issues discussed in this book; we should make our friends aware of these issues; we should educate our children to be concerned about the welfare of all sentient beings; and we should protest publicly on behalf of nonhuman animals whenever we have an effective opportunity to do so. While”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“Whatever the theoretical possibilities of rearing animals without suffering may be, the fact is that the meat available from butchers and supermarkets comes from animals who were not treated with any real consideration at all while being reared. So we must ask ourselves, not: Is it ever right to eat meat? but: Is it right to eat this meat?”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“Salander gave him a long look, satisfied herself that he was an idiot, and decided that she would not waste too many seconds concerning herself with his existence.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“Berger’s eyes narrowed. She turned ice-cold. She had had enough of the word whore.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“I was a scared little girl barely into my teens then. Now I’m a grown woman. I can kill you whenever I want. Again”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I’m in love with several people,” Blomkvist said.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“Blomkvist,” she cried with panic in her voice. “They’re not just planning to involve him in a scandal, they’re planning to murder him. Then the police will find the cocaine during the investigation and draw their own conclusions.” Edklinth”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“It takes twenty-one pounds of protein fed to a calf to produce a single pound of animal protein for humans. We get back less than 5 percent of what we put in.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

“As psychiatrists we must teach ourselves to interpret the overall picture. With regard to Lisbeth Salander, you can see on her body, for example, a multitude of tattoos and piercings, which are a form of self-destructive behaviour and a way of damaging one’s own body. We can interpret that as a manifestation of self-hate.” Giannini turned to Salander. “Are your tattoos a manifestation of self-hate?” she said. “No,” Salander said. Giannini”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“But it was not over for Lisbeth Salander. This was only the first day of the rest of her life. At”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“You could get pretty angry with less provocation. She”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“Over the last six years, I’d examined scores of such scans, on the off chance that some procedure might benefit the patient. But this scan was different: it was my own. I”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I was leaving this small Arizona town in a few weeks, and I felt less like someone preparing to climb a career ladder than a buzzing electron about to achieve escape velocity, flinging out into a strange and sparkling universe.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I was caught returning at dawn from one such late-night escapade, my worried mother thoroughly interrogated me regarding every drug teenagers take, never suspecting that the most intoxicating thing I’d experienced, by far, was the volume of romantic poetry she’d handed me the previous week. Books became my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“It was a five-hundred-page novel called Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S., by Jeremy Leven. I took it home and read it in a day. It wasn’t high culture. It should have been funny, but it wasn’t. However, it did make the throwaway assumption that the mind was simply the operation of the brain, an idea that struck me with force; it startled my naïve understanding of the world.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“You could not help but feel your specklike existence against the immensity of the mountain, the earth, the universe, and yet still feel your own two feet on the talus, reaffirming your presence amid the grandeur.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“A match flickers but does not light. The mother’s wailing in room 543, the searing red rims of the father’s lower eyelids, tears silently streaking his face: this flip side of joy, the unbearable, unjust, unexpected presence of death…What possible sense could be made, what words were there for comfort?”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“But my focus would have to be on my imminent role, intimately involved with the when and how of death—the grave digger with the forceps.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air