“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“...light can be found in even the darkest of hells. That kidness can thrive even amongst cruelty.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“The beauty of this world is fading all too fast through the cruelty and thoughtlessness of men.” — Julie C. Dao Copy Share Image
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance.And yet, we suffer...many of… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect -… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had… — Katherine Catmull Copy Share Image
“That’s what Lockie was—a little boy.It could do your head in if you thought too much about the cruelty that one person… — Nicole Trope Copy Share Image
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How did I become who I am? I have a heart easily hurt. I believed that cruelty was most often caused by… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“We have both been given the same wish to survive, We are all, you see, toys of the life-force. It made you… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of humanity's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying by these adjectives that such behaviour is… — Storr Copy Share Image
Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“It was worse--knowing he knew the difference between kindness and cruelty and chose the baser of the two.” — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not… — Jon Wynne-Tyson Copy Share Image
“Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued.” — Keisha Keenleyside Copy Share Image
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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