Best Cruelty Words
773 Cruelty quotes by 532 unique authors
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Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.
— River Phoenix
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Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.
— Juliet Stevenson
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
— Bea Arthur
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What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.
— Pamela Anderson
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There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to…
— Edouard Boubat
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If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy…
— Gary Yourofsky
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Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
— Thrity Umrigar
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The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the…
— Angela Davis
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Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know…
— Breyten Breytenbach
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Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.
— Jenny Holzer
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Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
— Francois Mauriac
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
— Zadie Smith
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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
— Mercy Otis Warren
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It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
— Thomas Paine
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
— Marquis de Sade
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Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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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
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The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or…
— Theodore Dreiser
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is…
— Alain Badiou
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If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib, You must not treat others with cruelty. You must…
— Malala Yousafzai
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But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme…
— Malcolm Bradbury
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Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit…
— Tom Regan
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The secret of poetry is cruelty.
— Jon Anderson
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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
— Frank Herbert
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