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Timeline of Quotes Against Vivisection

Activists Quotes Against the Cruelty of Vivisection, Experiments on Animals, Animal Experimentation, Animal Tests, Testing & Research

Anti-Vivisection Quotes

Plotinus in the 3rd century, refused medical treatments derived from animals. During the Renaissance, William Shakespeare spoke out against vivisection in his plays while Henry More began a Latin correspondence with Descartes describing vivisection as "murderous and barbarous."

And although, in the Age of Enlightenment, individuals such as Joseph Addison, Samuel Johnson, Voltaire, Thomas Percival and William Trinder spoke out against vivisection, as well as Lord Byron, Elizabeth "Bessy" Kent, William Hamilton Drummond, James Lawson Drummond and Arthur Schopenhauer in the Romantic Age, it is the Victorian Age that encompasses the beginnings of the anti-vivisection movement.

Some of the more famous individuals against Vivisection of the Victorian Age include Edward Carpenter, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Arthur Schopenhauer, George Bernard Shaw, and Mark Twain to begin to name a few.