Cruelty Quotes - Page 37

• As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

  Henry Giroux

  Compassion, Culture, Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

  Henry Giroux

  Needs, Culture, Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly children, there is also the emergence of a punishing state, a governing through crime youth complex, and the emergence of the school-to-prison pipeline as the new face of Jim Crow.

  Henry Giroux

  Children, School, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Not only is it important for me to create a 100% cruelty-free brand, but also send out a very clear message to both consumers and companies out there: testing on animals in the name of beauty is cruel and unnecessary.

  Kat Von D

  Animal, Names, Important

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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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.

  Cleve Jones

  Gay, White, America

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• I became an anti-fascist, and the more I saw what was happening to the peoples of Europe, the Jews, the more I saw the deep cruelty and inhumanity of that system and its philosophy of white supremacy.

  Harry Belafonte

  Philosophy, Europe, White

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Sadness, Eye, Elephants

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.

  Patti Smith

  Gay, People, Faces

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to others. I have been off Twitter lately because I had this sudden sort of feeling of, this man is the president of this club and it's not a club that I want to be in. Sometimes I feel like, well, perhaps it's not right because as a political activist, this is where politics is happening right now. This is where the conversation is going on, but at the same time, I think there is something corrosive about it.

  Ben H. Winters

  Men, Thinking, America

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.

  Barack Obama

  People, Heartbreaking, Young

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think as the beauty industry moves forward, you will start to see more brands opening their eyes and becoming vegan. Excluding a huge part of the beauty consumers who only buy vegan, isn't right and if you can make just as high-quality makeup, why not stop cruelty?

  Jeffree Star

  Moving, Eye, Makeup

  Source: logicalharmony.net

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• The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

  David LaChapelle

  Children, War, Dark

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Silent, Tyranny, Aggression

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Thinking, Meat

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• Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Cows, Vitamin D, Vitamins

  "The ‘Real Milk’ Campaign Hopes To Make Real Suckers Out Of Us" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  School, Medicine, Choices

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Children, Mercy

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• As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophy, Believe, Exercise

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• Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

  Marcel Proust

  Knowing, Enchantment, Firsts

  Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah”

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• In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

  Mitt Romney

  Yield, Views, Hands

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• Cruelty is not a literary value.

  Salman Rushdie

  Values

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• I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, People, Cost

  "Richard Russo on Painting a Canvas With His Novels". HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

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• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Soulmate, Honesty

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2

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• I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

  Jane Smiley

  War, Thinking, Pieces

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• London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

  Emma Thompson

  People, London, Outsiders

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