Brigid Brophy Quotes (7 Quotes)

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

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 not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals. I know I would not have the right to kill you, however painlessly, just because I liked your flavour, and I am not in a position to judge that your life is worth more to you than the animal's to it.

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.

Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental', you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

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

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