there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty. — Baron Stratford Tony Banks Copy Share Image
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares. — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
“...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance.And yet, we suffer...many of… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way… — Limmy Copy Share Image
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had… — Katherine Catmull Copy Share Image
[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect -… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“That’s what Lockie was—a little boy.It could do your head in if you thought too much about the cruelty that one person… — Nicole Trope Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with the world we live in. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going… — Robert Muchamore Copy Share Image
Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
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