Julie Walters Quotes

Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

People love that monkey torture.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring humans and warriors rather than cute animals.

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

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

My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless.

… the worst animals

There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.

As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good.

The only thing that really depresses me is animal cruelty.

I would be more angry if an animal were treated cruelly than people, because people can defend themselves.

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 white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

Great, just great. The only thing to make him a worse asshole would be to kick a puppy.’ (Nathan)

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.

The footage that you're about to watch of China's dog-leather trade is one of the worst things I've ever seen.

My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.

A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.