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Cruelty Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.
- Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
- [There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
- Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they…
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at…
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and…
- How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
- You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the…
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the…
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- Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been… — George W. Bush
- The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be… — George W. Bush
- Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would… — Samuel Butler
- To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler
- Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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