Vivisection Quotes

• What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Animal, Discovery

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.94, A&C Black

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• Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Animal, Evil

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• There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Animal, Names, Looks

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• Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Abuse

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• At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Alternatives, Looks

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year.

  Vernon Coleman

  Children, Animal, Men

  "Why Animal Experiments Must Stop". www.animalliberationfront.com. 1991.

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• I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Medical, Unnecessary

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• Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.

  Woody Harrelson

  Animal, Doors, Years

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• Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Eye, Equality

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• Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Pain, Animal

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• [I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Animal, Compassion, Purpose

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• We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Peace, Heart

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

  Rachel Carson

  Animal, Vegetarianism, World

  "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.

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• Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.

  Albert Sabin

  Cancer, Animal, Giving

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• Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

  River Phoenix

  Vegetarianism, Perfection, Links

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, One Day, Looks

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Animal, Blessing

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• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

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• The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  War, Animal, Long

  Jon Wynne-Tyson (1972). “The Civilised Alternative: A Pattern for Protest”

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• Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.

  Jon Evans

  Pain, Animal, Men

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• It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• ... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  Character, Mean, Animal

  Jon Wynne-Tyson (1972). “The Civilised Alternative: A Pattern for Protest”

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