Ann Aguirre Quotes

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

Farre shooting never kild bird.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

Don't hunt what you can't kill

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.

We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

Most harm is done by people who are awake.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy

Harm seek, harm find.

The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.

It's nothing that complicated, I just want to kill him

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.