Brigid Brophy

"To hold vivisection to be never justified is a hard belief. But so is its opposite. I believe it is never justified because I can see nothing which lets us pick on animals that would not equally let u…"

"Reason can always disarm the irrational. If reason finds itself to be irrational, it can disarm it; and if one finds reason and discovers that eating animals is immoral, unnecessary, and done largely …"

"Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental" you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic," they mean they are going to make money out of it."

"I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagin…"

"When factory farmers tell us that animals kept in 'intensive' camps are being kindly spared the inclemency of a winter outdoors, and that calves do not mind being tethered for life on slats because th…"

"To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deep into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps three thousand years from now it will se…"