Brian Jacques Quotes

I am a passionate opponent of fox hunting because the fox runs in fear of its life over a prolonged period, hearing the hounds getting closer and closer. Barbarous does not even begin to describe such a sport.

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?

This world is not for cowards.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I'd viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She'd seen it as animal cruelty.

Don't listen to me. I'm a maniac, but the voice in your head, ask it "Is it right to kill 200 million animals simply for fun?". What did it say? Right. There you go.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.

You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.

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

I think it's very wrong to have the mass murder, every single day, of millions of animals.

I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses or elephant abuse. I don't want to be in the same industry with these people.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?