It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The cruelty and brutishness of men is, on occasion, more than I can bear to witness.” — Rachel Urquhart Copy Share Image
We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It’s also chicken-shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously—like technology allows so many people to… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I’d known cruelty in a school—cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene—crowds batting around a… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper… — William Law Copy Share Image
When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course,… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of anger, Harry felt a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a… — Peter Burwash Copy Share Image
“You mistake purpose for cruelty, and I have always had a purpose. I am not mindless.” — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
As a society, there are times when we need to stand together against indecency and cruelty. — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
“I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.” — Archilochus of Paros Copy Share Image
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