Quote#Wisdom
[C]ruelty is cruelty under whatever colouring it may appear; and…
Quote byLewis Gompertz · 1783–1861
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824), Chapter 11, pp. 149–150.
English (original)
[C]ruelty is cruelty under whatever colouring it may appear; and whether exercised on a man or on a fly, cruelty is still cruelty. It matters not whether the victim be furnished with two legs or with four, with wings, with fins, or with arms; where there is sensation, there is subject for cruelty, and in proportion to the degree of sensation will its action operate.
— Lewis Gompertz
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