Quotes About Anti-Hunting
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.” –James A. Froude
“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game.” –Paul Rodriguez
“Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one…that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.” –Mark Twain
“When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.” –George Bernard Shaw
“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” –Ellen DeGeneres
“There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.” –Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.” –William S. Gilbert
“Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality.” –His Holiness the Dalai Lama
“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.” –Joseph Wood Krutch
“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.” –Henry David Thoreau
