“The more capable people are of inflicting pain, the deeper, more buried they are in illusion and fear.” — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“When you’re a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
'I'm a Celebrity' is not my cup of tea whatsoever. I don't like the animal cruelty in it, to be honest. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“Cruelty shouldn't be met with more cruelty; the cycle of violence must end. Yet, survival often demands a fight, and sometimes there's… — David Omrai Copy Share Image
We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often… — Gail Dines Copy Share Image
“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The… — Gail A. Eisnitz Copy Share Image
There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
“I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“It didn't take long. In that despondent changeless heat the entire human content of the ship congealed into a massive drunkenness. People… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Mexico has made a mistake. Alone, it fights a war against a global phenomenon that only matters to a few. That makes… — Sabina Berman Copy Share Image
“The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
To insult someone we call him estial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.” — Keith Hollihan Copy Share Image
never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. — Dinah Sheridan Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness — Ingrid Holtby Copy Share Image
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“I say, if you hate cruelty, remember that nothing is so cruel in its consequences as the toleration of heresy!” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge… — Alison Eastwood Copy Share Image
