George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw [July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950]
[Playwright, Critic, Political Activist, Nobel Prize For Literature in 1925]
“Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.”
“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?”
“The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?”
“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come wherein humanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil. Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. It is man’s sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”
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