that indifference to the sufferings which they cause…

“Sometimes honesty and cruelty go hand in hand, do they not?” she asked softly and released the curtain. It fluttered into place. “Sometimes honesty…

— Christi Caldwell

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

— Susan Ertz

“As a rule, beaten, tormented, and humiliated children who have never received support from a helping witness later develop a high degree of tolerance…

— Alice Miller

There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations…What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes,…

— Daniel O'Connell

“if the teachings of Christianity were genuinely to take root in human hearts ... we should have no desire for war, should hate injustice…

— Atheist Delusions David Bentley Hart

“I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased in direct…

— Marcel Proust

“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he…

— Marcel Proust

“At every new torment which is too hard to bear we feel yet another vein protrude, to unroll its sinuous and deadly length along…

— Marcel Proust

Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that…

— John Henry Newman

These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold…

— George Q. Cannon

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

— Livy

“But, you know, if you choose to be with someone you should feel good with them, otherwise it doesn't make sense... How do you…

— Assia Petricelli

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen…

— Thomas Paine

“One result for many people is a tendency to think that power comes from cruelty or indifference. But, in reality such things are not…

— Anonymous

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

— Sydney J. Harris