Contagious Quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs Download Open image “Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contagious Cruelty Uncivilized
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species. — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest symptom of… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored people. 'My… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the… — Frank Bettger Copy Share Image
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time,… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves, 'Is mine worth catching?' — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
