Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities… — Mark Twain 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
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society. — David Hume Copy Share Image
If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures,… — Miriam A. Ferguson Copy Share Image
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image
People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image