Age Quote by Bertrand Russell

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited…

— Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited…

— Albert Schweitzer

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

“It must be the duty of racial hygiene to be attentive to a more severe elimination of morally inferior human beings than is the…

— Konrad Lorenz

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is…

— Elihu Root

It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot…

— Bartolome de las Casas

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

— Morgan Llywelyn

I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have…

— Henry David Thoreau

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups…

— Gloria Steinem

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is…

— Vernon Howard

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

— Mercy Otis Warren

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

— Veronica Roth