Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all… — Cassiodorus Copy Share Image
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the… — Jasmine Guy Copy Share Image
Charles VIII says of Alexander...All Italians are dirty dogs, and the Holy Father is the worst of them. — Borgia Copy Share Image
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way… — Limmy Copy Share Image
“The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“That's not cruel. This is. You come here in the middle of the night, expecting me to be awake, and ask—no, demand—me… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“that painting, that song, that book― if it's real, it was once terror, with cruelty and sadness as a backdrop. … — Adam Moursy Copy Share Image
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“He’d set his mouth in a feral line that could have tipped toward kindness or to cruelty in a second.” — Cate Rowan Copy Share Image
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
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