Cruelty Quotes

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  Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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• Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.

  Ardel Wray

  Law, People

  "Fictional character: Thea". "Isle of the Dead", www.imdb.com. 1945.

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• Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

  Averroes

  Positive, Fear, Hate

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• Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fear, Hands, Together

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• Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Animal, Men, Animal Cruelty

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.41, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Hardy

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• Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Bullying, Heart, Mind

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• Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

  Thomas Fuller

  Tyrants

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• Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

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• Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Community, Literature, Contagious

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.234, Prestwick House Inc

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• Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Men, Noble

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.570

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• Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Abuse

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• To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Humanity, Forgiving, Clemency

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• Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kids, Intellectual, Literature

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• Fear is the parent of cruelty.

  James Anthony Froude

  Life, Fear, Parent

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.461, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

  Meir Kahane

  Love, Peace, Revenge

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• War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

  Gilbert Parker

  War, Gentle

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Dog, Cat

  Attributed in "Animal century" by Mark Gold (, 1998.

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• Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

  Mason Cooley

  Pity, Fear Not

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• Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Human Nature, Humans, Unnatural

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• The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

  Pamela Anderson

  Kentucky, States, Monument

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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  Isaac Asimov

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Greatest Fear, March

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Animal, Kind

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