To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Poor Duchess.. Kind hearted though, Her own Duke took away her smiles...<3 — Achi_chathy Copy Share Image
cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty. — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart. — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
