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Cruelty Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
- Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor…
- Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.
- Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
More Cruelty Quotes
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's… — Margaret Atwood
- Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler
- What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and… — William Blake
- 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
- There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and… — George Clooney