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Animal Quotes by 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 no ideals, no…
- Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
- Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
- Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched…
- A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing.…
- We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
- I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
- The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge…
- A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than…
- Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
- Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
- While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
- The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
- Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
- I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
- We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be…
- If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel…
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