Cruelty Quotes
773 quotes by 557 authors
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental…
— Margaret Atwood
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great…
— Renata Adler
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can…
— William Blake
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and…
— George W. Bush
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom…
— George W. Bush
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
— Samuel Butler
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
— Samuel Butler
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that…
— George Clooney
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
— Pamela Anderson
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
— Ilka Chase
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
— Thomas Paine
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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of…
— Galen Strawson
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with…
— Leo Tolstoy
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
— Simon Schama
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The…
— William Wells Brown
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the…
— Frederick Douglass
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