Brigid Brophy Quotes

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• 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 be…
• 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…
• 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 know…
• The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not…
• In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play…
• The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no…
• The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.
• To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of…
• 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 all.
• To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is…
• A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.
• "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…
• I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

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