Animals Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so…

— Anonymous

“... a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“(’No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.’)”

— Jonathan Glover

“Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.”

— Brandon Sanderson

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

— Anonymous

“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”

— Belinda Jeffrey

“I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.”

— Archilochus of Paros

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed…

— Hans Askenasy

“There is a certain beauty in our intrinsic human cruelty.”

— youssef

“Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.”

— Robin Hobb

“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of…

— Marcel Proust