The world will always be cruel, but it never seems that way unless you face it alone — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Most people tacitly agreed to permit cruelty rather than risk being subject to it.” — Sean DeLauder Copy Share Image
Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination. — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“Yelling yields yellow yokes...cruelty is never bravery,gentleness is.Be calm at all odds of life!” — Heavenjoe Sunny Copy Share Image
Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“I meant that the hatred of that July day in Nashville was alive and well on that horrible day in Pittsburgh. People… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
The trade mark of the devil is Cruelty, & anyone who is cruel to anyone or animals & takes pleasure in it?… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures,… — Miriam A. Ferguson Copy Share Image
I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals,… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
“Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a… — Anita Amirrezvani Copy Share Image
Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“When Lear cries, ‘Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?’, we could reply, on one level, yes –… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
“Oh, maybe it started innocently, with a joke, with coquetry, with amorous play, maybe, indeed, with an atom, but this atom of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The very pathetic myth of "beneficent nature" could not deceive even the least wise being if he once saw for himself the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person,… — J. Martin Klotsche Copy Share Image
Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares. — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
