Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty. — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Poor Duchess.. Kind hearted though, Her own Duke took away her smiles...<3 — Achi_chathy Copy Share Image
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals,… — Louis J. Camuti Copy Share Image
“You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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 had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
“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
“Despite the gloom she could make out enough of his finely chiseled features to fleetingly rethink the CPR issue. The man was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“After some hours, the dogs, exhausted by running round, almost dead, their tongues hanging out, set upon one another and, not knowing… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with… — Adam Serwer Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty. “Why is it important?” Because when you read about… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image