“The cruelty of this world casts a spell on the innocents, and together we will punish those who do not know the… — Casey Hill Copy Share Image
All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people… — Stephen Hunt 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it is almost an ordeal, which would make us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and,… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation. There are enough people… — Akbar S. Ahmed Copy Share Image
Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 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
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
“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
He doesn't have super powers or the biggest, baddest gun. The point isn't how many people you can kill or how you… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
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
I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to… — Judith N. Shklar Copy Share Image
“What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with… — Rikki Rockett Copy Share Image
Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or… — Storm Jameson 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 very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of… — Lewis Mumford 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
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
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
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