author: voltaire

  • I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – Voltaire

  • People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines…. It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of…