The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
At The Humane Society of the United States, we know how difficult it is to prevent cruelty to animals in movies because… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people… — Stephen Hunt Copy Share Image
“The cruelty of this world casts a spell on the innocents, and together we will punish those who do not know the… — Casey Hill Copy Share Image
What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are… — Walter Savage Landor 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
“There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes… — E.H. Aitken Copy Share Image
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“No matter how well meaning and astute the investigators are or how well-researched, witnessed and documented the incidents of cruelty are, a… — Gayle K. Horii Copy Share Image
“People said things to me like "They're just animals. They're here for our use." I had a visceral reaction to that phrase,… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence,… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“Beyond the Nature of Truth (The Sonnet) Do you realize how serious the situation is, Are you aware of the lives ruined… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state… — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
One night I couldn't sleep and I was up and just Googling random stuff and I'm like, 'Hmmm, PETA.' I saw all… — Kellie Pickler Copy Share Image
“Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity… — Caroline Blackwood Copy Share Image
Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
He doesn't have super powers or the biggest, baddest gun. The point isn't how many people you can kill or how you… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
“Some people Are worthy of a bullet straight to the heart because that is where cruelty evolves into evil. Some humans aren't… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel;… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
“You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to… — Judith N. Shklar Copy Share Image
Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
In my teenage years I had a very anti-cruelty orientation and all that kind of stuff, so having spent a long time… — Tom Payne Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and,… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image