Quote#Happiness
Have you a right to torture animals for your pleasure? Have you a…
Quote byWilliam Brown (veterinarian) · 1861–1931
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Suppression of Cruel Sports", Western Daily Press (4 May 1929), p. 4.
English (original)
Have you a right to torture animals for your pleasure? Have you a right to make their lives amid terror and misery in order to derive some measure of gratification from what are called the pleasures of the chase?
— William Brown (veterinarian)
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