When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself. - Proverbs 11:17 — Bible Copy Share Image
A little kindness goes long way but the sad thing is that a little cruelty goes further... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“He’d set his mouth in a feral line that could have tipped toward kindness or to cruelty in a second.” — Cate Rowan Copy Share Image
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Charles VIII says of Alexander...All Italians are dirty dogs, and the Holy Father is the worst of them. — Borgia Copy Share Image
I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the… — Jasmine Guy Copy Share Image
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“that painting, that song, that book― if it's real, it was once terror, with cruelty and sadness as a backdrop. … — Adam Moursy Copy Share Image
Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions,… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
“...even God cannot match the cruelty of his creation. For every Santorini, there are a hundred massacres of innocents. And that is… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
People routinely assume that pornography is such a difficult and divisive issue because it's about sex. In fact, this culture struggles unsuccessfully… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot… — James Herriot 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
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person,… — J. Martin Klotsche Copy Share Image
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“You mistake purpose for cruelty, and I have always had a purpose. I am not mindless.” — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
As a society, there are times when we need to stand together against indecency and cruelty. — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image