Top 8 Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Quotes
#1. Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
#2. Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
#4. Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace of love, and not the uneasy equilibrium of fear-until we recognize the place of animals in the scheme of things and treat them accordingly.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
#5. Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary ... The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
#6. More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation ... I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
#7. In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
#8. My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons ... we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not indefinitely.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
