Advantage Quote by Philip Pullman

“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

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

— Eric Hoffer

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But…

— Edmund Burke

Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress.

— William Blake

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

— George Bernard Shaw

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion,…

— Simone Weil

“things, our society is not divided into “good” and “bad.” Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make…

— Veronica Roth

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

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience,…

— Anonymous

In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted…

— Eric Hoffer

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from…

— Eric Hoffer

Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our…

— Henry Fielding