Cruelty Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cruelty Fool Goes on Ill Let him go Manners Silence
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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“Our society should not buy into the abusive man's claim that holding him accountable is an act of cruelty.” — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill! — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
“And every man ought to say to himself, “Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?” And if he does not say that to himself, he is masking his anguish. There is no question here of the kind of anguish which would lead… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing...… — Leopold Stokowski 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 a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
