In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness. — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong.… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough.… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
“The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our line of work is very cynical, and a lot of it is driven by cynicism, cruelty, and meanness. It's easier to… — Shawn Michaels Copy Share Image
Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost… — Charles Bukowski 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
It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed… — Junius Copy Share Image
Fewer people than you might think seem to have truly enjoyed their formative education and, for those who did not, one theme… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
They cast me away.Away with dismay Outcast in so many ways.Brutally discriminated by their against. — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
