Aidan Hall

“Sometimes, looking at the map of Great Britain, we are struck by the improbability of the place. That strangely fashioned land with its curious prongs and protuberances, like a slender-waisted old woman soaring on piggyback over the continent of Europe, seems suddenly to acquire the air of an improvisation.”
― Robert Payne, The Canal Builders: The Story of Canal Engineers Through The Ages

“man produces evil as a bee produces honey”
― William Golding, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces

“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.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

“If you are to punish a man retributively, you must injure him. If you are to reform him, you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries.”
― George Bernard Shaw