Marie Corelli Quotes

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

I don't want to see crocs end up as boots, bags and belts. We're killing and consuming our wildlife icons.

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.

I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

When the wart-hog looks up at the sky, it gets its throat slit.

The evening commenced with bear-baiting, badger and coon drawing, wolf-hunting and rat-killing. The bear was baited by five dogs until he caught them in his paws and crunched them half to death, amid the yells and cheers of the assembled fancy...

Armenians were absolutely hunted like wild beasts, being killed wherever they were met, and if the slaughter was not greater, it was, I believe solely owing to the vastness of the mountain ranges of that district which enabled the people to scatter, and so facilitated their escape. In fact, and speaking with full sense of responsibility, I am compelled to say that... the object was extermination, pure and simple.

Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!

I'm not a hunter.

The illegal wildlife trade has an unacceptable human cost for those who have lived for centuries in harmony with wildlife.