George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Animal Rights
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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