As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children,… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state… — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
