Taylor Caldwell Quotes

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees!

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.

The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or using them particularly when we have no better reason than palate pleasure or fashion. If you are eating, wearing, or using animals, then your actions say that you regard them as mere things, despite what your words say.

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.