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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with… — Richard Hofstadter
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for… — Jon Evans
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up… — John Hoyt
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was… — Unknown Author
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the… — Charles Spurgeon
Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only… — John Calvin
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of… — Felix Frankfurter
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and… — Mervyn Peake
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage,… — Howard Zinn
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue… — Steven Erikson
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as… — Sri Aurobindo
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set… — Sri Aurobindo
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost… — Kate Millett
It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty — Shashi Deshpande
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities… — Katha Pollitt
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields… — Iwan Bloch
When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had… — Jehan Sadat
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. — Ali MacGraw
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who… — Rikki Rockett
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning… — Leon Trotsky
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as… — Eric Hobsbawm
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current... — Henry Giroux
People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than… — Caroline B. Cooney
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. — Joseph O'Connor
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. — Laura Miller

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