There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power. — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I've learned that sometimes when I am angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
We are killing a living thing just so that we can wear it? I think fake leather is also beautiful and lasts… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers;… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this:… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the… — Vyacheslav Molotov Copy Share Image
There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Astarte has come again, more powerful than before. She possesses me. She lies in wait for me. December 97 My cruelty has… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It’s also chicken-shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously—like technology allows so many people to… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be, Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly; - 153 -” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Blood dripped from his blackfly bites. The bottle flies swarmed the wounds on his head and back, but with his arms secured… — Circa24 Copy Share Image
“They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
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