This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself. - Proverbs 11:17 — Bible 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
“By the way, a Bulgarian I met lately in Moscow," Ivan went on, seeming not to hear his brother's words, "told me… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They're emotionally crippled souls that are addicted to attention. Because of… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself… — John Berger Copy Share Image
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. — Alexander von Humboldt 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
My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to -… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Imagine that someone said or did something cruel to you, but that you did not react in any way whatsoever – you… — Roy Masters Copy Share Image
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image