It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Some people Are worthy of a bullet straight to the heart because that is where cruelty evolves into evil. Some humans aren't… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel;… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity… — Caroline Blackwood Copy Share Image
Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One night I couldn't sleep and I was up and just Googling random stuff and I'm like, 'Hmmm, PETA.' I saw all… — Kellie Pickler Copy Share Image
“People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state… — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
“Actually, the Sniper's sense of humor frightened Amy more than anything else. The parody of Carla's poem had been witty, the rudeness… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
“I know he has a bad nature,' said Catherine; 'he's your son. But I'm glad I've a better, to forgive it; and… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who… — Jehan Sadat Copy Share Image
“Pain is pain, whether it be inflicted on man or beast; and the creature that suffers it, whether man or beast, being… — Humphry Primatt Copy Share Image
“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to sudden explosions. If a… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“When we cuss each other out, call each other the vilest names on earth, and put each other down with thoughtless cruelty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others, and learn… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
After the separation of children from families seeking to join the United States was embraced as the official policy of our government,… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
“The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to… — Steven James Copy Share Image
The Tories claim that they have changed. Their stance on foxhunting makes it absolutely clear that they haven't. They know the public… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed… — Guy Endore Copy Share Image
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them… — Tom Tryon Copy Share Image
all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Similarly, the people actually causing the the harm directly don't want us to be reminded of the their practices--in fact, they often… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Years later he would add that Italians have “no other aim than to live” because they “discovered a long time ago that… — Gerald Martin Copy Share Image
![“The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the…” quote by Guy Endore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a30/guy-endore-71747_class_the-whole-famous-reign-of-terror-of-the_1207129.jpg)
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