Hunting Quotes - Page 9

• I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.

  Bill Etherington

  Animal, Thinking, Two

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• There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no Clapham hunt, but we can see foxes on their streets at night. If we want to control vermin we should work out how to deal with that problem. The idea that foxhunting controls the fox population is arrant nonsense.

  Roger Gale

  Night, Ideas, Work Out

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• I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To say that other ways of killing foxes, such as shooting, are crueller is to accuse all those people who work in the countryside of being more cruel than they need to be. In all the time that I have lived in and represented the countryside, I have seen no evidence that those people have that view.

  Ian Cawsey

  Thinking, Views, People

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• I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to treat a fox that had been brought in with a shooting injury. The answer from a vet who had worked there for many years was, Not once. When I asked him why, he said,You can take it from me that when the fox is shot in the countryside by somebody trained, it is dead.

  Ian Cawsey

  Years, Vets, Answers

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• As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

  Richard Page

  Lying, Moving, Discipline

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• With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour of a ban in my constituency, but I would not regard that as conclusive, and I hope that we never would. If we start having opinion polls about all the unpleasant and distasteful habits and customs of some members of society, and suggesting that their findings should be made part of the criminal law, foxhunting would come way down the list, and quite a lot of strange enactments would have to go through the House.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Law, House, Majority

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• A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do things of which we approve, but about allowing them to do things of which we do not approve.

  John Gummer

  People, Lasts, Resorts

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• I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact of a total ban on hunting on relationships between the police and the community in rural areas - a particularly significant consideration in current circumstances. Is it, I ask myself, sensible to divert valuable police time to enforce a ban on hunting when they are under so much pressure from violent crime?

  Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford

  Impact, Years, Community

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• Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

  H. G. Wells

  Sphere Of Influence, Spheres, Anthropology

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.12554, Delphi Classics

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• Life in the open is one of my finest rewards. I enjoy and become completely immersed in the high challenge and increased opportunity to become for a time, a part of nature. Deer hunting is a classical exercise in freedom. It is a return to fundamentals that I instinctively feel are basic and right.

  Fred Bear

  Exercise, Opportunity, Challenges

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• Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

  Laozi

  Racing, Mind, Taoism

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• Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil - without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle.

  Frances Ford Seymour

  Science, Community, Tree

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• Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

  Maurice Grimaud

  Games, Snow, Midnight

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• Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.

  Richard Lerner

  Sports, Spiritual, Team

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• The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about our right, all of our right to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys [politicians] up there.

  Suzanna Hupp

  Gun, Ducks, Guy

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• She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Husband, Butterfly, Prettiest

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• There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.

  Oren Lyons

  Fall, Two, Blood

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• My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Country, Mean, Gun

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• Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.

  Amy Ridenour

  Sports, Numbers, Effort

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• Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

  Tim Winton

  Blood, Sea, Long

  Tim Winton (2017). “The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes From an Australian Life”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

  Iris Murdoch

  Sports, Struggle, Gun

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• My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Birthday, Brother, Knives

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• Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sympathy, Selfish, People

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• I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Sports, People, Use

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

  Russell Brand

  Nice, Dead Poets Society, People

  "Russell Brand: Robin Williams’ Divine Madness Will No Longer Disrupt the Sadness of the World". The Guardian Opinion Page, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2014.

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