Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination, — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation… Typical abuses I have witnessed… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“My master always said you couldn't beat a skill out of somebody. They had to learn in their own way and time.… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
“This wasn’t romance. This was a hardcore Master out and out driving her to the upper level of madness, where her body… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It… — Anonymous 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
In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
“Religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, however, animal activists ask people to see things they can prove. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Little world, full of scars and gashes, ripened with another's pain, Your flowers feed on carrion--so do your birds; Men feed on… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I should have known that the cruelty of girls is intensified here, living together 24/7, hundreds of miles away from home.” — Cat Clarke Copy Share Image
When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity. — Anthony D. Williams Copy Share Image
“The cruelty of children is more shocking than the cruelty of adults. Not only was I shocked, I was angry. But it… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Now I say, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it; you did right my… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
To find the cruelty of tortured emotion the lights of sun and moon will leads us all to the path hole of… — Jayjay Guillermo Copy Share Image
“The cruelty of it. The desecration, Margo thought with disgust. Mangling an imperfect body because of an imperfect mind.” — Monica Starkman Copy Share Image
I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time,… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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