Cruelty Quotes - Page 20

• Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

  John Cowper Powys

  Wise, Pain, Animal

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• Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied directly to human beings who vary widely in their hereditary make-up, in their environment, and in their past health record.

  John Boyd Orr

  Animal, Past, Records

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• Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Animal, Suffering, Benefits

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• Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Pain, Believe, Animal

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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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• Most animal experimentation is useless.

  Henry Heimlich

  Animal, Useless, Experimentation

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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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• ... 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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• A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

  Brigid Brophy

  Pain, Animal, May

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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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• Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they create a serious obstacle to the development of new therapeutic drugs.

  Bernard Brodie

  Men, Animal, Drug

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• Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with 'yes, buts,' 'so whats?' and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.

  Phillip Lopate

  Humility, Writing, Forever

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• He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.

  Porphyry

  Hate, Animal, Compassion

  Porphyry (1823). “Select works of Porphyry; containing his four books On Abstinence from Animal Food; his treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Translated from the Greek by T. Taylor; with an appendix, explaining the allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses, by the translator”, p.126

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• For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Compassion, Suffering, Deeds

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.205

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• Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.

  Roger Caras

  Horse, Compassion, Hunters

  Roger A. Caras (1971). “Death as a Way of Life”

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• "Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

  Brigid Brophy

  Compassion, People, Abuse

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• The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Justice, Soul, Humans

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• Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Looks, World

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• The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

  Robert Graves

  Mother, Song, Betrayal

  Robert Graves (1955). “Collected poems, 1955”

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• Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Vices, Judgment

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• I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Compassion, Our World

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• There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Men, Numbers, Ill

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• Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Madness, Granted

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• There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Passion, Men, Lust

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1531, e-artnow

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• It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

  Erich Fromm

  Country, Hate, War

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.58, Open Road Media

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