Cruelty Quotes
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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.
Malachy McCourt
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The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. Children should from the beginning, be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.
John Locke Nazareth
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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!
David LaChapelle
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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.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
Eric Maisel
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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?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
Emile Zola
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
William Shakespeare
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Cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.
Immanuel Kant
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
William Penn
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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.
William Law
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As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
Morarji Desai
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I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Bette Ford
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
Michel Foucault
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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.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
Phaedrus
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
Thomas Aquinas
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The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
Georges Lefebvre
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Eula Biss
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw
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The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.
Stevie Smith
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Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if you develop a sense of compassion. You'll have that connectedness, that knowing that the same life that's in you is in every other being, so you're not going to mishandle life.
David S. Ware