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Animal Quotes by Brigid Brophy
- 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…
- 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.
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough