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 (1904- )

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.
--Froude (1818-1894)

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

... the art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest, and the stupidest of pretended sports.
--Lord (George) Byron (1788-1824)

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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 XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet (1935-)


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