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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
By George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger it is called a sport, when the tiger wants to murder him it is called ferocity.
By George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that's the essence of inhumanity.
By George Bernard Shaw
The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
By George Bernard Shaw
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
By George Bernard Shaw
My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.
By George Bernard Shaw
I never thought much of the courage of a lion-tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
By George Bernard Shaw
If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
By George Bernard Shaw
If a guinea pig may be sacrificed for the sake of the very little that can be learnt from it, shall not a man be sacrificed for the sake of the great deal that can be learnt from him?'
By George Bernard Shaw
Human beings are the only animals of which I am throughly and cravenly afraid.
By George Bernard Shaw
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are call medical research.
By George Bernard Shaw
'We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.'
By George Bernard Shaw
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
By George Bernard Shaw
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.
By George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
By George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
By George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
By George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say, Why not
By George Bernard Shaw
You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'
By George Bernard Shaw
You see things, and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were, and say 'Why not?
By George Bernard Shaw
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
By George Bernard Shaw
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
By George Bernard Shaw
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
By George Bernard Shaw