Cruelties Quotes

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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless. — Mahatma Gandhi
You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true. Find out what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin,… — Rabindranath Tagore
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what… — J M Coetzee
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with… — Richard Hofstadter
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for… — Jon Evans
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields… — Iwan Bloch
When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had… — Jehan Sadat
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as… — Eric Hobsbawm
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. — Joseph O'Connor
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice,… — C L R James
Evil almost always starts with small cruelties. — Will Schwalbe
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven, and in open… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and… — Mark Twain
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. — Friedrich Engels

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