As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.” — Sujata Massey 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
The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I read recently that someone set up a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots in America. The idea being that… — Emily Berrington Copy Share Image
People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“Why was America so kind and yet so cruel? Was there no way to simplifying things in this continent so that suffering… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Ideal Love, stepped down to the level of the practical, day-to-day life, must mean the service of each to all within his… — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
“Humans were capable of incredible cruelty, our father wanted me, my sister, and my brothers to understand. And just as dangerous, he… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of humanity's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying by these adjectives that such behaviour is… — Storr Copy Share Image
“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We have both been given the same wish to survive, We are all, you see, toys of the life-force. It made you… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“How did I become who I am? I have a heart easily hurt. I believed that cruelty was most often caused by… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. — Bertrand Russell 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
“He’d set his mouth in a feral line that could have tipped toward kindness or to cruelty in a second.” — Cate Rowan Copy Share Image
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“that painting, that song, that book― if it's real, it was once terror, with cruelty and sadness as a backdrop. … — Adam Moursy Copy Share Image
Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
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