To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of. — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical… — C.J. Sansom 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
Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“Preppy is capable of both cruelty and mercy, of both murder and salvation. He’s been the victim, the villain, and the hero.… — T.M. Frazier Copy Share Image
I think as the beauty industry moves forward, you will start to see more brands opening their eyes and becoming vegan. Excluding… — Jeffree Star Copy Share Image
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Cruelty. Not only the willful causing of unnecessary suffering, but the indifference to it. It's much easier to be cruel than one… — jonathon safran foer Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After some hours, the dogs, exhausted by running round, almost dead, their tongues hanging out, set upon one another and, not knowing… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect. — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image
“Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you’re doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don’t be both, because now you’ve made… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you betray me, Leta…Kill me. Be kind and don’t let me live in the shadow of your cruelty. I can’t take… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly… — Anonymous 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
As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image