We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“The more capable people are of inflicting pain, the deeper, more buried they are in illusion and fear.” — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
“The cruelty of men had infected the land, and sea only swept in sharp waves to the shores.” — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“Mexico has made a mistake. Alone, it fights a war against a global phenomenon that only matters to a few. That makes… — Sabina Berman Copy Share Image
“The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with complete certainty… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“The Wit is more curse than gift, I sometimes think. Perhaps the hardest part of possessing it is witnessing so completely the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Despite the gloom she could make out enough of his finely chiseled features to fleetingly rethink the CPR issue. The man was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly. I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
To insult someone we call him estial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“When you’re a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
'I'm a Celebrity' is not my cup of tea whatsoever. I don't like the animal cruelty in it, to be honest. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. — Dinah Sheridan Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness — Ingrid Holtby Copy Share Image
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. — Juvenal 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
“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
“It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.” — Keith Hollihan Copy Share Image
never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
