Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than… — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power. — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
I've learned that sometimes when I am angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong.… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
“I know he has a bad nature,' said Catherine; 'he's your son. But I'm glad I've a better, to forgive it; and… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who… — Jehan Sadat Copy Share Image
Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he… — Porphyry Copy Share Image
I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Dealing with Caleb was all about perspective. You couldn’t appreciate his kindness until you’d felt his cruelty.” — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Just a fake smile stuck on your face and the world thinks you are the happiest person...Nobody will give a f*king importance… — Dhir Sukhnani Copy Share Image
Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever. — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The cruelty of it. The desecration, Margo thought with disgust. Mangling a perfect body because of an imperfect mind.” — Monica Starkman Copy Share Image
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