More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart. — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity. — Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf Copy Share Image
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
The cruelty and the meanness, that's why I'm not, I don't have a social media account that's public. — Ashley Biden Copy Share Image
In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
People can be cruel, and they will be. People can hurt you, break your heart and they will. But only you can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness,… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
“Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is absolutely foreign to their natures.Some people once talked of setting up a branch of the " Prevention of Cruelty to… — Flora Sandes 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
“The modeling world – and the world at large – is a pretty cruel place. It’s up to you to decide whether… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove… — Sima Qian Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image