Brigid Brophy Quotes

There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

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

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

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

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.

Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?

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.

There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.

I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of 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.

We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year.

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

I'd love to see that rat nose smashed!

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

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

As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.