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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. -- George Bernard Shaw
Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction. -- Jon Evans
Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days. -- Stephen Fry
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary -- Carl Jung
Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs. -- Michael Donaghy
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Jon Wynne-Tyson
... 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. -- Jon Wynne-Tyson
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. -- Michael Donaghy
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... -- Queen Victoria
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. -- Kathryn Bigelow
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. -- Leo Tolstoy
Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of self-disillusion the via dolorosa or "highway of despair," in Baillie's fine and florid rendering, like Jesus' route to Golgotha). -- Kenny Smith
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today. -- Brenda Ueland
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two. -- Robert Browning
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. -- Mark Twain
vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers. -- Brenda Ueland
Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals. -- Lewis Carroll
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live. -- Savitri Devi
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life. -- Charles Darwin
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. -- Walter Hadwen
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