Atheism Quote by Denis Diderot

Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine…

— John Muir

“[W]e are hardened to what we know, and we rationalise and even justify cruelties practised by us and our like while retaining the capacity…

— John Keegan

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may…

— Jon Krakauer

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

— Marquis de Sade

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

— Martin Firrell

We must follow nonviolence and love.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Lord, we live in a world where violence thrives and the plight of the innocent is often overlooked. Precious peace making Father teach us…

— David Holdsworth

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one…

— Albert Bandura

Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the…

— Henry Stephens Salt

The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing…

— Mira Sorvino

“The essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice.”

— Bertrand Russell

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

— Ludovico Ariosto