"If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts."

Ethics, Justice, Animals, Testing

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"If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts."

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"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!"

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"Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society."

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"Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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"Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

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"Let thy true religion be to act right."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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James Patterson, American Author

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"People don't talk about mercy very much these days-it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary."

Alexander McCall Smith, British Author

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"To be ethical, never think of anything unethical. To be moral, never hurt anyone."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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