Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity. — Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf Copy Share Image
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse. — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
“Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.” — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
What immensely touches me and moves me is cruelty against children and elder people. That is something I am sensitive about, I… — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
I'm proud to join Cruelty Free International in calling on the United States to end cosmetics testing on animals. — Drea De Matteo Copy Share Image
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind… — Ruth Harrison Copy Share Image
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
And in that hour, The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd To such gigantic and enormous growth, Were sown in human… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“[W]e are hardened to what we know, and we rationalise and even justify cruelties practised by us and our like while retaining… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong.… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a… — Anita Amirrezvani Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is seldom forgotten. You feel it as a child. Somebody takes away your toy or thoughtlessly kicks over your sand castle.… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“They stared each other down again. And Lorcan knew that if he wanted, he could wait until she was asleep, take it… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal… — Nathan Runkle Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
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