The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
People can be cruel, and they will be. People can hurt you, break your heart and they will. But only you can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“...when the createdness of the other person is not viewed as necessary as our own—then there is no reason (beyond expediency) to… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals… — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Gaia spoke in a complex language of predator and prey, of growth and dormancy, of birth and migration, of seasonal change, of… — Linda Nagata Copy Share Image
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid it's not nonsense," Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. "As I was saying before the little… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“Dark against the bright rust of the dead leaves, an unfledged starling lay flabbily upon its back. It was loose-skinned, helpless, and… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelty or suffering. She… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The cruelty and the meanness, that's why I'm not, I don't have a social media account that's public. — Ashley Biden Copy Share Image
In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is all about money, making a plan trying to help ourselves and letting other people fish .” — Crisci Copy Share Image
“We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty,… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.” — Amy Engel Copy Share Image
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Don't judge someone unless you know all the bullshit that they've had to deal with in their lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
