The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
A double standard is a scandal. A single standard is an atrocity. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Mexico has made a mistake. Alone, it fights a war against a global phenomenon that only matters to a few. That makes… — Sabina Berman Copy Share Image
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
To insult someone we call him estial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“When you’re a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
'I'm a Celebrity' is not my cup of tea whatsoever. I don't like the animal cruelty in it, to be honest. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously… — Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior Lawson Soulsby Copy Share Image
“They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking… — Zora Neal Hurston Copy Share Image
“I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty toward her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a… — William Jones Copy Share Image
What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“We had no compunction toward our enemies [the ants] and took to increasingly desperate and violent means of dealing with them. If… — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of life, one leading to righteousness, which brings happiness, and the other to unrighteousness, which produces misery. One… — Arthur Findlay Copy Share Image
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The powerful fey close to me still hate me and don’t want me on the throne. If they could have, they would… — Kalcee Clornel Copy Share Image
“Riding out with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt, White recorded the first time he saw a kill with distanced fascination. The… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being… — Brom Copy Share Image
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