It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
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 man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty. He would be unable to raise his hand in punishment… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity… — Edward Irving Copy Share Image
When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of… — Charlotte Lamb Copy Share Image
“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do -… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and… — G. Frank Lawlis Copy Share Image
I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children,… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering… — Ingrid Newkirk 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
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells 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
Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly. I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
“Human knows cruelty and punishment but God knows only love and justice” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
“Human knows only cruelty and punishment but God knows only love and justice” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
“You stung me like that often; cruelty always was your strong suit.” — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world. — Jack London Copy Share Image
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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![“perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange…” quote by Martha Gellhorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/martha-gellhorn-8061_activity_perhaps-these-men-in-the-house-caucus-ro_3015733.jpg)
