Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Though the fox kills the chicken, and the bigger animals live on the little animals, what appears to be cruelty is a… — J KRISHNAMURTI Copy Share Image
Hollywood, Twitter, our friends - they all contribute to a community of snark. The more we engage in the way that everyone… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about… — Hizkias Assefa Copy Share Image
“Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn't that always the way… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the… — Vyacheslav Molotov Copy Share Image
People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening… — Andrew Porter Copy Share Image
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is not taught. It is as certain as a compass point. One can be instructed in the specifics of cruelty, like… — Lee Thomas Copy Share Image
What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles… — Iwan Bloch Copy Share Image
I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Done any more robberies?" he asked with a nervous grin. You look a right berk," I told him, ignoring his question. I'd… — Helen Cross Copy Share Image
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“She knew he’d be back. No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw it. She sensed that in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Beyond the walls are cruelty and deceit, lies and pain, ageing and death. As long as we are strong we can resist… — Casey Hill Copy Share Image
My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Cast down, O Lord, all the forces of cruelty and wrong. Defeat all selfish and worldly-minded schemes, and prosper all that is… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other… — Charlotte Ross Copy Share Image
In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
