Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and… — Ardel Wray Copy Share Image
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally… — Adolf Hitler 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
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“I meant that the hatred of that July day in Nashville was alive and well on that horrible day in Pittsburgh. People… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way… — Limmy Copy Share Image
“Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
“Things keep happening all around you. There is violence, there is gore, there are people who will use you and never look… — Heema Shirvaikar Copy Share Image
“Beyond the Nature of Truth (The Sonnet) Do you realize how serious the situation is, Are you aware of the lives ruined… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task… — John Hoyt Copy Share Image
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help… — Marjane Satrapi 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
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were… — Wes Craven 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