Cruelty Quotes - Page 19

• Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against cruelty. There is a lot of suffering in the world, but how much suffering can be addressed with literally no time or effort on our part? We can just stop supporting it, by making different choices.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Compassion, Choices, Effort

  "Resolved: Eating Animals Is Indefensible" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.

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• The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

  George Clooney

  Real, Winning, People

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• I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Animal, Speaks Out

  "Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

  Henry Rollins

  Ignorance, Feet, Racism

  "Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American (Pt. 2)". bigthink.com.

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• To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

  John Woolman

  Moving, Exercise, Unseen

  John Woolman (1860). “A journal of the life, gospel labors and Christian experiences, of that faithful minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman: to which are added, his last epistle, and other writings”, p.28

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• Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

  John Calvin

  Law, Neighbor, Endeavor

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• We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Capacity, Extremes, Humans

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• In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Cheating, Religious, Hypocrisy

  "Viggo Mortensen blasts President Bush" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. December 14, 2005.

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• There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the New Testament, which arms its God with hell, and extends his outrages throughout all eternity!

  Helen H. Gardener

  Revenge, Book, Atheism

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• If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation. There are enough people preaching hatred, which encourages violence. We are living in times when technology, biology and chemistry have created the possibility of killing in large numbers. And, unfortunately, the cruelty and killing are often justified through a distorted interpretation of religion.

  Akbar S. Ahmed

  Hate, Technology, Numbers

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• Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Hands, Two

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Character, Giving

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• This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

  Josiah Warren

  Crush, Money, Hype

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• There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Mean, Sacrifice

  Erich Fromm (1997). “Love, Sexuality, and Matriarchy: About Gender”, Fromm International

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• My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Age, Brutality

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Wilderness (Short Story)”, p.30, Bantam

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• Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Sacrifice, Hatred, Selfishness

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• It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

  Alicia Silverstone

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Animal

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• I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Hope, Eye, Shine On

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• I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

  Peter Burwash

  Real, Commitment, Hockey

  Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books

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• Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Dog, Lying

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• Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

  Jillian Lauren

  Girl, War, Soul

  Jillian Lauren (2010). “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem”, p.62, Penguin

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• If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat otherswith cruelty...you must fight others but through peace, through dialogue and through educationthen I'll tell him [the Talib] how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Fighting, Shoes

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• Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

  Friedrich Engels

  Order, People, Useless

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Animal, Practice

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• The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Animal, Research, Disease

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