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The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay
You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big… — John Marsden
Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work… — Victoria Moran
No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how… — Sheri Holman
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from… — Steven James
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their… — Unknown Author
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. — Dinah Sheridan
How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He… — John Bevere
Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to… — Colleen Houck
Evil almost always starts with small cruelties. — Will Schwalbe
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief… — Charlie Chaplin
What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder. — Thomas Paine
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained… — Don Cupitt
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
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of… — Chase Twichell
You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce. — Tony Gaskins
People routinely assume that pornography is such a difficult and divisive issue because it's about sex. In fact, this culture struggles unsuccessfully with pornography because… — Robert Jensen
It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease… — David G. McAfee
Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and unconditional… — Marc Bekoff
Cast down, O Lord, all the forces of cruelty and wrong. Defeat all selfish and worldly-minded schemes, and prosper all that is conceived among us… — John Baillie
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts… — George Mason
The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it… — George Santayana
The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the… — Susan Sontag
The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is… — Lewis Mumford

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