All GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Quotes about “Animals”

“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.”
“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”
“I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.”
“Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”
“Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.”
“Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that”
“Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.”
“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?”
“A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line”
“I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.”
“A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”
“Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.”
“It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.”

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