Always Quote by Steven Pinker

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

— Clancy Brown

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

— Joseph Conrad

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

— James Lovelock

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of humanity's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying by these adjectives that such behaviour is characteristic of…

— Storr

I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact that love…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

— Anthony de Mello

“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We…

— Rachel Carson

People change in order to survive in this cruel world

— Alvin

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect…

— Rachel Carson

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

— Robert Jordan

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

— Gillian Flynn

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events…

— Stephen Jay Gould