Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Don't judge someone unless you know all the bullshit that they've had to deal with in their lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.” — Amy Engel Copy Share Image
“He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty,… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is all about money, making a plan trying to help ourselves and letting other people fish .” — Crisci Copy Share Image
We want more knowledge about our animals and less sentiment. Far more cruelty is caused in this country by lack of knowledge… — Muriel Wace Copy Share Image
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness,… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
“Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove… — Sima Qian Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly. I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
