George Bernard Shaw Animal Quotations

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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.

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.

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

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

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

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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.

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.

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...

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?