I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is… — Elizabeth Van Lew Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Out there was a man who had murdered his daughter. And another who had stepped on her heart. His hatred should be… — Shūichi Yoshida Copy Share Image
“But this I can say for certain: though I did that cruel thing purposely, it was not an impulse from the heart,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Astarte has come again, more powerful than before. She possesses me. She lies in wait for me. December 97 My cruelty has… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
What you need to realize is, life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel; but you are well equipped for… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There was also the Argument of Increasing Decency, which basically held that cruelty was linked to stupidity and that the link between… — Ian M. Banks Copy Share Image
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make… — Emilia Lanier Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
“Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper… — William Law Copy Share Image
When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course,… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I’d known cruelty in a school—cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene—crowds batting around a… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Without cruelty one cannot see the kindness, with no brutality no one will witness and appreciate the gentle monsters, that without the… — Wulf Francú Godgluck Copy Share Image
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image