I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better…

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings…

— Anonymous

“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of…

— Michael Tobias

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…

— Mark Twain

There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It must really not be…

— Queen Victoria

“But those who are incapable of pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men. A physician who would cut a…

— Robert Ingersoll

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to…

— Kathryn Bigelow

Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path…

— Kenny Smith

...many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and…

— Vernon Coleman

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners,…

— River Phoenix

Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world…

— Lewis Carroll

Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash…

— Rod Coronado

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months…

— Christiaan Barnard

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

— Michael Donaghy