Cruelty Quotes - Page 27

• It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

  Philip Sidney

  War, Conquest

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• Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Disappointment, Promise, Deceiving

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• It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beautiful, Strong, Mean

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Blood, Apples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.319

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• Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting.

  Dan Chaon

  Wise, Real, Class

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• Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth about the fears, cruelties, and humiliations of childhood, but then does that rarest, and more difficult, thing: writes equally beautifully about the moments of victory and transcendence.

  George Saunders

  Growing Up, Writing, Intelligent

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• The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Halos

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• The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

  Joseph Conrad

  Discovery, America, Greed

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• How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, Men, Productive Life

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• Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.

  Russell Simmons

  Dog, Children, Cat

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• Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty

  Aftab Alam

  Heaven, Return, Mercy

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• The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Numbers, People

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.411, Open Court Publishing

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• I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

  Ian Mcewan

  Imagination

  Interview with Zadie Smith, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, Oppression, Exploitation

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• There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.

  Wes Craven

  Country, War, Hero

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Hurt, Maturity, Validation

  Interview with Charlie Day, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Pain, Animal, Helping Others

  People & High Society Interview, www.peopleandhighsociety.com.

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• Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Our World, Looks, Violence

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It's the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it's not a passive thing.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal, you are training yourself to be cruel to people, too (and vice versa).

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, People, Training

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• "The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.

  Paul Auster

  Falling In Love, Morning, Children

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

  Voltaire

  Pain, Philosophical, Character

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• Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

  Hugh Blair

  Sports, Pain, Selfish

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• Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

  William Jones

  Ignorance, Animal, Dumb

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• [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

  John Adams

  Eye, Men, Intellectual

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