“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
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our line of work is very cynical, and a lot of it is driven by cynicism, cruelty, and meanness. It's easier to… — Shawn Michaels Copy Share Image
We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to… — S. Parkes Cadman Copy Share Image
As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism.… — Patrick Stump 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
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
“No, it really isn't, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn't fair.… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of… — Alberto J. Mora Copy Share Image
“{ From Lindsey's address at the funeral of renowned scientist Luther Burbank . Burbank was one of the most beloved people in… — Ben Lindsey 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
Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity,… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
There is no point in developing anything at the cost of exploiting and abusing animals. Not only is it important for me… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“ 'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we… — Katherine Addison Copy Share Image
Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in… — Patricia O'Brien Copy Share Image
Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you're a teenager. But I think for… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Therefore any cruelty has to be executed at once, so that the less it is tasted, the less it offends; while benefits… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is such a reassuring thing. The world is in God's hands;… — Matthew Levering Copy Share Image
I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter… — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
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