Vivisection Quotes

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

And I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human animals.

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.