"Habit is a second nature which prevents us……" — Marcel Proust

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• As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium… — John William Draper
• A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of… — Mahatma Gandhi
• You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
• We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do.… — Rabindranath Tagore
• Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and… — J M Coetzee
• The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position… — Richard Hofstadter
• To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a… — Jon Evans
• The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the… — Iwan Bloch
• When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the… — Jehan Sadat
• The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when… — Eric Hobsbawm
• Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. — Joseph O'Connor

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