All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
“People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Yelling yields yellow yokes...cruelty is never bravery,gentleness is.Be calm at all odds of life!” — Heavenjoe Sunny Copy Share Image
Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is… — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul.… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler;… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if… — David S. Ware Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is seldom forgotten. You feel it as a child. Somebody takes away your toy or thoughtlessly kicks over your sand castle.… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal… — Nathan Runkle Copy Share Image
“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty. He would be unable to raise his hand in punishment… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“I would never have learned that light can be found in even the darkest of hells. That kindness can thrive even amongst… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows the great energies running amok cast terrible shadows, that each of the so-called senseless acts has its thread looping back… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre Copy Share Image
She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do -… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of… — Charlotte Lamb Copy Share Image
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity… — Edward Irving Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people,… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Animal cruelty is like a sick focus point at one extreme of almost universal raping of mother nature for mans greed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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