Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
One of the frustrating tics of our society's progressive vanguard is the assumption that every evil it discovers was entirely invisible in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business,… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that… — Thomas Paine 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
“Astarte has come again, more powerful than before. She possesses me. She lies in wait for me. December 97 My cruelty has… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes easier to be punished for something than it is to be a victim of random cruelty. As long as… — T. Kingfisher 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
Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this:… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“People said things to me like "They're just animals. They're here for our use." I had a visceral reaction to that phrase,… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
“No matter how well meaning and astute the investigators are or how well-researched, witnessed and documented the incidents of cruelty are, a… — Gayle K. Horii 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
There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often… — Gail Dines Copy Share Image
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Sex will never be simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be,It is not fundamentally democratic or kind;… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“But man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd— His glassy essence—like an angry… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“If you don't like pictures of animal cruelty being posted on social media, you need to help stop the cruelty, not the… — Marie Sarantakis Copy Share Image