I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft… — Michel de Montaigne 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
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Mfalme Sulemani alikuwa mtu mwenye hekima kuliko wote ulimwenguni. Anatushauri, “Adui yako akiwa ana njaa, mpe chakula; Tena akiwa ana kiu, mpe… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world,… — Edna St Vincent Millay 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
That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance. And yet we suffer,… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
“Torture when inflicted on children becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible practice to extract information, the… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
“Animal abuse should be taken seriously not just because of our concern for humans. Lax enforcement of animal-cruelty laws leads to untold… — Clif Flynn Copy Share Image
It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and… — Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish Copy Share Image
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
“Cruelty shouldn't be met with more cruelty; the cycle of violence must end. Yet, survival often demands a fight, and sometimes there's… — David Omrai Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
