To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
We live in a disrespectful, hateful & harsh world but we strive to Love each other, and become successful but without God… — Lorenzo Hart Copy Share Image
What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you’re doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don’t be both, because now you’ve made… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all… — Terry Jones 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
“Torture when inflicted on children becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible practice to extract information, the… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and… — Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish 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
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
“You think history is the history of loving hearts? You fool! Look at these millions of dead. Can you pity them, feel… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect. — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If you betray me, Leta…Kill me. Be kind and don’t let me live in the shadow of your cruelty. I can’t take… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The cruelty of men had infected the land, and sea only swept in sharp waves to the shores.” — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
