Huw Irranca-Davies quotes

What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of the hole and thrown to the hounds, we have to be very concerned. Where we have hunts where foxes are bred for the sport of it, that is not pest control. That is pure bloody sport.
-- Huw Irranca-Davies

#Sports #Hunting #Abuse

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs?

The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.