Religion Quote by Lee Thomas

“Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a…

— Anne Holm

“Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by…

— Farley Mowat

“Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects.…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“We do not have a choice between purity and violence but between different kinds of violence. Inasmuch as we are incarnate beings, violence is…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities…

— C.S. Lewis

“Cruelty is an earmark of murderers and politicians.”

— Eric R. Asher

“Seeds of destruction take root in the human heart, and even among those who long for peace, they call to our darker instincts and…

— Victoria Armour-Hileman

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.”

— Rehan Waris

“There are people that are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and…

— George Orwell

“Cruelty shouldn't be met with more cruelty; the cycle of violence must end. Yet, survival often demands a fight, and sometimes there's no clear…

— David Omrai

“The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness.”

— M.F. Moonzajer