In my teenage years I had a very anti-cruelty orientation and all that kind of stuff, so having spent a long time… — Tom Payne Copy Share Image
Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and,… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a… — Peter Burwash Copy Share Image
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Without cruelty one cannot see the kindness, with no brutality no one will witness and appreciate the gentle monsters, that without the… — Wulf Francú Godgluck Copy Share Image
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper… — William Law Copy Share Image
When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course,… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“I’d known cruelty in a school—cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene—crowds batting around a… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
“There was also the Argument of Increasing Decency, which basically held that cruelty was linked to stupidity and that the link between… — Ian M. Banks Copy Share Image
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make… — Emilia Lanier Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
“There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world." "There goes the… — Nadège Richards Copy Share Image
I don't think anything's cruel - if you're so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, unfortunately every time a comedian… — Roy Hodgson Copy Share Image
In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Over the years I had convinced myself that brutality required motive, but this is a fool’s deceit. Cruelty is the motive; religion… — Lee Thomas Copy Share Image
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image