Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion. — Nathan Runkle Copy Share Image
“Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you’re doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don’t be both, because now you’ve made… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect. — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image
“In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Love is madness,” I say. “Doesn’t everyone agree that you’d do anything, endure anything, to be with the ones you love? So… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“To hold her, to keep her -- just as she was -- with her cruelty, with her vulgarity, with her blinding blue… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“When they were only a few yards from the stone hull, Inej halted and watched the mists wreathing the branches. “He was… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are people in this world whose central focus is to permeate cruelty with little regard for their own karmic penalties. Love… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
![“perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange…” quote by Martha Gellhorn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4c3/martha-gellhorn-8061_activity_perhaps-these-men-in-the-house-caucus-ro_3015733.jpg)
