Animal Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

— George Bernard Shaw

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

— George Bernard Shaw

“It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones.”

— George Bernard Shaw

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

— George Bernard Shaw

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

— George Bernard Shaw

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

— George Bernard Shaw

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

— George Bernard Shaw

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

— George Bernard Shaw

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly…

— George Bernard Shaw

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

— George Bernard Shaw

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All…

— George Bernard Shaw

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has…

— George Bernard Shaw

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not…

— George Bernard Shaw

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned…

— George Bernard Shaw

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened…

— George Bernard Shaw

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank…

— George Bernard Shaw

A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer…

— George Bernard Shaw

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal…

— George Bernard Shaw

The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must…

— George Bernard Shaw

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

— George Bernard Shaw

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

— George Bernard Shaw

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

— George Bernard Shaw