Agony Quote by Thomas Paine

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

— Samuel Johnson

“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

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

— Eric Hoffer

“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of…

— Marcel Proust

“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

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still…

— Samuel Johnson

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

— Jacqueline Carey

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

— Orville Dewey

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes…

— William Hazlitt

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

— Sydney J. Harris