Abuse Quote by Jon Evans

“Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are only too…

— Matthew Scully

“[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

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

The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.

— Billy Graham

“Cruel’ or a ‘tool’? For if we see pain as an adversary, we will see nothing but the former and we will forfeit the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for…

— John Rawls

Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of…

— Russell Boyd

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to…

— Thomas Paine

“Pain is pain, whether it be inflicted on man or beast; and the creature that suffers it, whether man or beast, being sensible of…

— Humphry Primatt

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

— Anonymous

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that…

— Albert Schweitzer

“In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky