The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“He read the words, wondering when cruelty won the vote from democracy.” — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
“human cruelty was to never be underestimated, always to be believed in,” — Brian Lee Durfee Copy Share Image
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I think my cruelty hides beneath the surface a lot more than Sue Sylvester's. — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all… — Cassiodorus Copy Share Image
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her;… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness,… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When Lear cries, ‘Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?’, we could reply, on one level, yes –… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
“The very pathetic myth of "beneficent nature" could not deceive even the least wise being if he once saw for himself the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Oh, maybe it started innocently, with a joke, with coquetry, with amorous play, maybe, indeed, with an atom, but this atom of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.” — Shannon l. Alder Copy Share Image
Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart. — Ludovico Ariosto Copy Share Image
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
