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 imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish… - Brigid Brophy
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish…
- Brigid Brophy
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to … - Brigid Brophy
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to …
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. - Brigid Brophy
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? - Brigid Brophy
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans. - Brigid Brophy
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.
The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonst… - Brigid Brophy
The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonst…
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. - Brigid Brophy
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals. - Brigid Brophy
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slav… - Brigid Brophy
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slav…
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