“What tortures have men to endure, comparable to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“In this information age, swords and knives are no longer the weapon of choice - words are (The Nature of Cruelty)” — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I… — Alison Larkin Copy Share Image
One of the frustrating tics of our society's progressive vanguard is the assumption that every evil it discovers was entirely invisible in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business,… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
“I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes easier to be punished for something than it is to be a victim of random cruelty. As long as… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this:… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Hitchcock has, thanks to color, been able to make the cruelty of his scenes almost beautiful — Peter Cowie Copy Share Image
“On May 5, 1896, he wrote in his diary; “I have no longer anything to say; everything is alike in its horrible cruelty.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress. — William Blake Copy Share Image
In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in… — Soke Behzad Ahmadi Copy Share Image
In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We prayed these wars would end all wars -- In war we know is no romance." ( Done With Bonaparte )” — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty. — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
