Cruelty Quotes
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What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!
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Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.
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Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
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There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?
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I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
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Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by that life which they are taught and accustomed to lead.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
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He looked like an angel. And all I wanted to do was put my fist through his jaw. I couldn't stand my own cruelty.
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An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
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My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be a tendency to view the animal-rights opposition in somewhat distorted fashion as a new development, as the product of a very recent enlightenment about the rights due to animals.
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
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There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.
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The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
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Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.
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Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.
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Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!
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There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.
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As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
