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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination, — Antonin Artaud
Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled… — Orson Scott Card
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
I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much… — George Thorndike Angell
The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after… — Oscar Wilde
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness. — Glen Duncan
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the… — James A. Baldwin
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to… — Muhammad
It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve… — Jodee Blanco
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. — Solomon
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not.… — Joseph Brant
The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of… — Kenneth Clarke
Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared. — Eula Biss
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort… — Isaac Asimov
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . .… — Abraham Lincoln
Cruelty and fear shake hands together. — Honore de Balzac
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges
Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty. — Nelson Mandela
I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something… — Jung Chang
This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be… — David Henry Hwang
The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often in forms that… — Gail Dines
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in… — James Nayler
My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation of other beings -… — Michael Klaper

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