Brigid Brophy quotes

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. (Brigid Brophy)

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.

Brigid Brophy

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

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deep into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps three thousand years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our oppression of animals.

Brigid Brophy

Brigid Brophy

Occupation: English Novelist
Born: June 12, 1929
Died: August 7, 1995
Quotes count: 4

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