"I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather
submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death
on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two. "
Robert Browning
"Vivisection is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing against God
and his fair creation. "
Mahatma Gandhi
"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I
count as of no consequence. "
Mahatma Gandhi
"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. "
George Bernard Shaw
"At present, scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using."
"Mutilating animals and calling it "science" condemns the human species to moral and intellectual
hell...this hideous Dark Age of the mindless torture of animals must be overcome. "
Grace Slick (musician)
"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the
life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit for their cruelty. "
Leo Tolstoy
"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
"Nothing but total abolition will meet the case of vivisection. I am quite disgusted at the frequency of
the most horrible experiments to determine the most trivial facts...evidently carried on for the
interest of the 'research' and the reputation it gives. "
Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution)
