There is no impersonal reason for regarding the interests of human beings as more important than those of animals. We can destroy animals more easily than they can destroy us; that is the only solid basis of our claim to superiority.
Source: If animals could talk (written in Sept. 14, 1932 and pub. in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975
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