Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. — Nalini Singh 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
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Animal abuse should be taken seriously not just because of our concern for humans. Lax enforcement of animal-cruelty laws leads to untold… — Clif Flynn Copy Share Image
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“We had no compunction toward our enemies [the ants] and took to increasingly desperate and violent means of dealing with them. If… — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world,… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast… — Ed McDonald 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
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
“...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.” — Doreen Orion Copy Share Image
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“That cruelty is part of nature is the little lie. That cruelty is part of human nature is the big one.” — Tom Fahy Copy Share Image
Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity. — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
Oh, you think you're so cool. Going around and acting very cruel. You know what? While you've been hurting people who you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of. — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
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