Bryan Fuller Quotes

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

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

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

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.

To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Westworld is an examination of human nature: the best parts of human nature... but also, violence, sexual violence have sadly been a fact of human history since the beginning of human history.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

People are mean to each other.

What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

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

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

Having respect for animals makes us better humans.

Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.

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.

Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your kid? Hell no!

Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.