Vivisection Quotes

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The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

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

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.

I really don't think it's a case of not caring at all about animals. Instead, I think it's a case of caring so much about one's own self that everything else becomes immaterial.