“My master always said you couldn't beat a skill out of somebody. They had to learn in their own way and time.… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination,… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden.… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The… — Gail A. Eisnitz Copy Share Image
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when someone fails, there's never an underlying nastiness or cruelty. We're an affectionate show and we're not poking fun at anyone.… — Tess Daly Copy Share Image
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a… — William Jones Copy Share Image
What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously… — Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior Lawson Soulsby Copy Share Image
“They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking… — Zora Neal Hurston Copy Share Image
“I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty toward her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers;… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We are killing a living thing just so that we can wear it? I think fake leather is also beautiful and lasts… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“whose early life had been so embittered by continual proof of neglect and cruelty in human parents toward their children, the love… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
“I mean consider how very horrible it is to read the accounts which sometimes meet us of cruelty inflicted on brute animals.… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have… — David Hume Copy Share Image