George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalionand Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 July 1856
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
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
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
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.