Brigid Brophy Quotes

• No considero que los animales sean superiores, ni siquiera iguales, a los humanos. Todo el argumento a favor de comportarse decentemente con los animales se basa en el hecho de que somos la especie superior. Somos la única especie capaz de imaginación, racionalidad y elección moral, y precisamente por eso tenemos la obligación de reconocer y respetar los derechos de los animales.

  Brigid Brophy

  Animal, Compassion, Rights

  Brigid Brophy (1966). “Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews”, London : Cape

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• Cuando la gente dice: "No debemos ser sentimentales", se puede deducir que están a punto de hacer algo cruel. Y si añaden: "Debemos ser realistas", significa que van a ganar dinero con ello.

  Brigid Brophy

  Fun, Mean, Compassion

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• La persona que mata por diversión está anunciando que, si pudiera salirse con la suya, te mataría por diversión. Tu... vida puede no tener importancia para nadie más, pero tiene un valor incalculable para ti porque es la única que tienes. Exactamente lo mismo ocurre con cada ciervo, liebre, conejo, zorro, pez, faisán y mariposa. El ser humano debe disfrutar de su propia vida, no arrebatar la de los demás.

  Brigid Brophy

  Fun, Butterfly, May

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• I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Sexo, Creer, Hombres

  Brigid Brophy (1968). “The Burglar: Play”

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• Argumentar que los humanos somos capaces de pensamientos y sentimientos complejos y multifacéticos, mientras que la percepción de las ovejas se limita probablemente a percepciones de borregos, no tiene más sentido que si yo te masacrara y te comiera alegando que soy una personalidad sofisticada capaz de disfrutar de Mozart, la lógica formal y el canibalismo, mientras que tu mundo imaginativo parece confinado a True Romances y espaguetis en lata.

  Brigid Brophy

  Animal, Sheep, Personality

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• To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.

  Brigid Brophy

  Sex, Two, Mind

  Brigid Brophy (1966). “Don't Never Forget: Collected Views and Reviews”

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• To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Equality, Animal, Should Have

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• In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.

  Brigid Brophy

  Art, Play, May

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• A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

  Brigid Brophy

  Pain, Animal, May

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• By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating -- merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.

  Brigid Brophy

  Book, Fall, Age

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• La distinción popular entre crítica "constructiva" y "destructiva" es un sentimentalismo: la mente demasiado débil para percibir en qué falla lo malo no es lo bastante fuerte para apreciar en qué tiene éxito lo bueno. Carecer de discernimiento es ser incapaz de elogiar. El crítico que te hace saber que siempre busca algo que le guste en las obras que comenta no te está diciendo nada sobre las obras o sobre el arte; te está diciendo "mira qué buena persona soy".

  Brigid Brophy

  Strong, Art, Nice

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• The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

  Brigid Brophy

  Bulls, Fighter, Butchers

  "Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews".

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• "Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

  Brigid Brophy

  Compassion, People, Abuse

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• The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.

  Brigid Brophy

  Sacrifice, Animal, Monkeys

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• The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

  Brigid Brophy

  Want, Guilty, Century

  Brigid Brophy (1969). “In Transit”, Heretic Books

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• I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Life, Death, Pain

  "Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews".

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• We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

  Brigid Brophy

  Tongue, Should, Right Words

  Brigid Brophy (1969). “In Transit”, Heretic Books

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