“You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them ever loved… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
“things, our society is not divided into “good” and “bad.” Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The cruelty of time, thought Alex. The world kept spinning, clocks kept ticking: time didn’t stop for anyone’s tragedy.” — Victoria Jenkins Copy Share Image
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“Although people can be cruel sometimes, kindness always wins. Enmity breaks hearts apart, but love assembles the pieces.” — Anoir Ou-chad Copy Share Image
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Therefore any cruelty has to be executed at once, so that the less it is tasted, the less it offends; while benefits… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is such a reassuring thing. The world is in God's hands;… — Matthew Levering Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter… — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In my experience, when a woman's cruelty is combined with love and devotion, it is almost always without exception an act performed… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the… — Alphonse de Lamartine 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
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq. — Clare Short Copy Share Image
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
“All the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image