Arbitrary Quote by George Meyer

Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence…

— Mark Ravenhill

“That is why all romantics are anti-Voltairean, even Michelet, whose political fervor ought to have made him stand aligned with Voltaire; and that is…

— Voltaire

“Insensitive to the point of cruelty.”

— Umera Ahmed

“It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty. “Why is it important?” Because when you read about it, it’s…

— Will Schwalbe

“I mean consider how very horrible it is to read the accounts which sometimes meet us of cruelty inflicted on brute animals. For what…

— Andrew Linzey

“Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths…

— Kiley MacLeod

“Cruelty is foiled by compassion.”

— Hugh Howey

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

— Anonymous

“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Shelley

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

— Brandon Sanderson

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the…

— Lytton Strachey

“There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause…

— Carla H. Krueger