"The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is……" — Brigid Brophy
"The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies."
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13 Quotes by Brigid Brophy
Brigid Brophy has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if…
- I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on…
- I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right…
- The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects…
- In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain.…
- The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun.…
- To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet…
- The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't…
- To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited…
- A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to…
- "Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental…
- I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my…
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