We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Although people can be cruel sometimes, kindness always wins. Enmity breaks hearts apart, but love assembles the pieces.” — Anoir Ou-chad Copy Share Image
“The cruelty of time, thought Alex. The world kept spinning, clocks kept ticking: time didn’t stop for anyone’s tragedy.” — Victoria Jenkins Copy Share Image
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness,… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your… — Joseph Brant Copy Share Image
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“All the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“We must let love simmer, without being consumed by contempt, otherwise atrocity will never end, only switch sides.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice. — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is the greatest server of humanity, but has become the victim of humans avarice and cruelty. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you're mad, you have the right to be mad, but you don't have the right to be cruel. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
