If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat an animal like an animal.
What we forget about animals we being to forget about ourselves.
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.
[A]n individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
If the Government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver