Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them ever loved… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Today, as I watched the red calico sunset behind the mill, it occurred to me how much cruelty there is at the… — Mikhail Kuzmin Copy Share Image
The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children,… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind… — Ruth Harrison Copy Share Image
And in that hour, The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd To such gigantic and enormous growth, Were sown in human… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
“[W]e are hardened to what we know, and we rationalise and even justify cruelties practised by us and our like while retaining… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task… — John Hoyt Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of anger, Harry felt a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“All the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq. — Clare Short Copy Share Image
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“The cruelty of time, thought Alex. The world kept spinning, clocks kept ticking: time didn’t stop for anyone’s tragedy.” — Victoria Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Although people can be cruel sometimes, kindness always wins. Enmity breaks hearts apart, but love assembles the pieces.” — Anoir Ou-chad Copy Share Image
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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