Cruelty Quotes
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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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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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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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The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.
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Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.
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Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
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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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Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.
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In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
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I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.
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Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.
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Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.
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It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.
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Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.
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It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty.
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Socialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.
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You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
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Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?
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Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.
