Grows Quote by Henry Sidgwick

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature…

— Thomas More

“There were undoubtedly those to whom killing was easy and pleasurable: he had met a few such. Millions had been successfully trained to end…

— Robert Galbraith

“kill an innocent child”

— Timothy Tocher

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

— Joseph Albo

“When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with…

— Mary Shelley

“When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's…

— Jim Morrison

“Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged.…

— Haruki Murakami

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

— Bernie Siegel

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need…

— Charlotte Lamb

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

— Yann Martel

“When people are to be slaughtered en masse, the local population is not immediately gripped by a bloodthirsty hatred of the old men, women…

— Vasily Grossman

“Killing ain’t no good thing, son, unless it’s to eat or protect yourself. And you ought never to delight in it.”

— Joe R. Lansdale