“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to… — Leo Tolstoy 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
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current... — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by… — Boris Pasternak 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
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we… — Bo Lozoff 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
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
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
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