Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A double standard is a scandal. A single standard is an atrocity. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
“I am loath to call clemency what was, rather, the exhaustion of cruelty.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong.… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In my experience, when a woman's cruelty is combined with love and devotion, it is almost always without exception an act performed… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
O' Fate, Smile while you may, For soon, I am coming. Giggle at us, As you bask in your cruelty. She deserved… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
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