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773 Cruelty quotes by 532 unique authors

If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government.… — Unknown Author
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as… — George Thorndike Angell
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice. — C.S. Lewis
We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is… — Alphonse de Lamartine
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;… — Simone Weil
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for… — Heinrich Himmler
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred. — Albert Einstein
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but… — Thomas Chalmers
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too,… — Charlotte Ross
In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together. — Peter Schmeichel
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer… — Peter Singer
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the… — Peter Singer
Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to… — Clarence Darrow
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war.… — John T. Flynn
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
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural'… — George Orwell
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts… — John Berger
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told… — Quentin Crisp
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. — Andrea Dworkin
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better,… — Anne Frank
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. — John Bunyan
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy,… — Phyllis Bottome
I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on… — Ellen DeGeneres
The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a life of cruelty.… — Jessica Chastain

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