Human cruelty Quote by Brian Lee Durfee Download Open image ““human cruelty was to never be underestimated, always to be believed in,”” — Brian Lee Durfee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human cruelty Nature of man
“What is more human than having our cruelty incited by another's weakness?” — Sana Krasikov Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.” — Belinda Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Most people tacitly agreed to permit cruelty rather than risk being subject to it.” — Sean DeLauder Copy Share Image
“Humans were capable of incredible cruelty, our father wanted me, my sister, and my brothers to understand. And just as dangerous, he made us… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared for a… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is seldom forgotten. You feel it as a child. Somebody takes away your toy or thoughtlessly kicks over your sand castle. A beautiful… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“Many things are found hidden beneath the ground. Men and kings and ancient warriors and the weapons they forged. All are eventually buried.” — Brian Lee Durfee 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
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Animal cruelty is like human cruelty. There is very little being done to prevent it, and only after it happens does anyone want to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“Riding out with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt, White recorded the first time he saw a kill with distanced fascination. The fox was dug out of a drain where it had taken refuge and thrown to the hounds. They tore it to pieces while a circle of human onlookers 'screeched them on'. The humans, White thought, were disgusting, their… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
