I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“O I'm so afraid that it's true about to travel hopefully being better than to arrive. It might be all in the quest, all… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
“Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals. — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting,… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals. I… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share
