Cruelty Quotes - Page 4

• Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

  Tacitus

  Compassion, Tears, Politics

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• Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

  Samuel Butler

  Divorce, Religion, Church

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, People, Violent

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Sea, Pirate

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.157

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• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

  Marquis de Sade

  Revenge, Passion, Ambition

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• Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

  Anna Sewell

  Oppression, Interfere

  Anna Sewell (2016). “Black Beauty”, p.68, First Avenue Editions

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• Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

  Paul Tillich

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• The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

  Bertrand Russell

  Cynical, Religion, Atheism

  Sceptical Essays "On the Value of Scepticism" (1928)

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• Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

  John Berger

  Talking, Evil, Needs

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.762, Vintage

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• Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

  Soledad O'Brien

  Capacity, Inherent

  "Researcher: It's not bad apples, it's the barrel". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. May 21, 2004.

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• If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

  Anatole France

  Deeds, Guilty, Immoral

  Anatole France (2007). “The Red Lily”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC

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• Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

  Cesar Chavez

  Animal, Live Well, Wells

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• Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

  Martin Amis

  Style, Fixed, Humans

  Martin Amis (1991). “Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence”, Vintage

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• Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other’s bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.

  Antonin Artaud

  Fall, Mean, Exercise

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.79, Grove Press

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• ...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Greed

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

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• As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

  Richard Gere

  Kindness, Responsibility, Compassion

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• Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

  Marquis de Sade

  Vices, Firsts, Sentiments

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• Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Moral, Divine

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• Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Kind, Instinct

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.458, 谷月社

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• Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Men, Savages

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• Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Able, Quiet

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• Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, Brain, Toxic

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “Bowen's Court & Seven Winters”, p.221, Random House

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• I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

  Henry Rollins

  Blood, Want, Things Change

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• It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

  Pythagoras

  I Hate You, Animal, Soul

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