We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.
George Bernard ShawBesides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
George Bernard ShawReligion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
George Bernard ShawI can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
George Bernard Shaw