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
Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“All I meant to say is that a rake's humor has its basis in cruelty. He needs a victim, for he cannot… — Julia Quinn 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
Faeries are fallen angels," said Dorothea, "cast down out of heaven for their pride." "That's the legend," Jace said. "It's also said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Confronted with the problems that characterize our herding culture, we are perhaps like the metaphorical man wounded by an arrow that the… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Hearing the sound of your breathing as you sleep, with the dog at your feet, his head resting on a shoe, and… — Bruce Dawe Copy Share Image
But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Hazel sometimes had a fantasy daydream at school where the teacher walked into the classroom and yelled, ISN’T EVERYTHING HORRIBLE? DOESN’T THE… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
“The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
“Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter… — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is such a reassuring thing. The world is in God's hands;… — Matthew Levering Copy Share Image
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Therefore any cruelty has to be executed at once, so that the less it is tasted, the less it offends; while benefits… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in… — Patricia O'Brien Copy Share Image
Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you're a teenager. But I think for… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“ 'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we… — Katherine Addison Copy Share Image
Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
There is no point in developing anything at the cost of exploiting and abusing animals. Not only is it important for me… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity,… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
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