Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“People who are hard on others are usually very hard on themselves, and the pain they inflict on others is a reflection… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction,… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my… — Joseph Gurney Cannon Copy Share Image
“No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will.” — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the… — Harry A. Blackmun 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
I have always been interested in theatre and after reading the script for THE INFLICTION OF CRUELTY, I thought that being part… — Pawel Szajda Copy Share Image
