“Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion. — Nathan Runkle Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
“Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be, Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly; - 153 -” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Without cruelty one cannot see the kindness, with no brutality no one will witness and appreciate the gentle monsters, that without the… — Wulf Francú Godgluck Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make… — Emilia Lanier Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“It is said that he had arrived at that last stage of human depravity, when cruelty becomes pleasing for its own sake,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But of those unhappy ones who were ensnared by Melkor little is known of a certainty. For who of the living has… — Tolkein J. R. R Copy Share Image
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Imagine that someone said or did something cruel to you, but that you did not react in any way whatsoever – you… — Roy Masters Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself. - Proverbs 11:17 — Bible Copy Share Image
A little kindness goes long way but the sad thing is that a little cruelty goes further... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A double standard is a scandal. A single standard is an atrocity. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
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