I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn’t… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart. — Ludovico Ariosto Copy Share Image
“A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the… — Edith Wharton 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
“In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed… — Guy Endore Copy Share Image
Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the… — Jodee Blanco Copy Share Image
I just came home and said, 'I'm a vegetarian.' My parents were very kind about it. And then, I became a vegan… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Life is kind and generous to those who respect its principles and rules, but it is hard and cruel with those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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