In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin 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
Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all… — Cassiodorus Copy Share Image
I'm proud to join Cruelty Free International in calling on the United States to end cosmetics testing on animals. — Drea De Matteo Copy Share Image
What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Our historical pastime is the direct satisfaction of inflicting pain. There are lines in Nekrassov describing how a peasant lashes a horse… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them… — Tom Tryon Copy Share Image
In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. — Assata Shakur 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
“Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.” — Amy Engel Copy Share Image
A double standard is a scandal. A single standard is an atrocity. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Torture and cruelty are the words that come to mind when people think of the Tower. Here it was that the princes… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
