Quotes About Anti-Vivisection
Vivisection is surgery conducted on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to directly view their internal structure for purposes other than their health.
“I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.” –Mahatma Gandhi
“Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is ‘Because the animals are like us.’ Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are not like us.’ Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.” –Charles R. Magel
“Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.” –George Bernard Shaw
“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t…the pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.” –Mark Twain
“I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.” –Charles Mayo
“During my medical education … I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary.” –Carl Jung, MD
“Vivisection has done little for the art of the doctor at the bedside, but it has done immeasurable harm to the character and mind of the rising generation of doctors.” –Dr. Rudolph Hammer, LLD
“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.” –Brigid Brophy
“By and large students are taught that it is ethically acceptable to perpetrate, in the name of science, what from the point of view of the animals would certainly qualify as torture. By the time [the students] arrive in the labs they have been programmed to accept the suffering around them.” –Jane Goodall, PhD
“It [referring to dog labs] did more to damage my identity as a physician than anything else. I learned nothing physiological. I learned that life is cheap, and that misery can be ignored.” –Murry Cohen, MD
