Cruelty Quotes - Page 5

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  My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

  Anna Sewell

  Perseverance, Animal, Compassion

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.195

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• I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

  Julie Walters

  Animal, Watches, Too Much

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Dog, Philosophical, Cat

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• Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

  Rue McClanahan

  Fashion, Animal, Pet

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• Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

  Frank Herbert

  Kindness, Cynicism, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.434, Penguin

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• The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Kings, People

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• Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

  Rachel Carson

  Peace, War, Heart

  "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.

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• Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

  Antonin Artaud

  Determination, Decision, Intention

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.101, Grove Press

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• My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Attitude

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.247, Princeton University Press

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• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Gun, Men, Animal

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  The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Life, Nature

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

  Elihu Root

  Animal, Men, Aggravation

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

  Albert Einstein

  Compassion, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

  Leon Trotsky

  Struggle, Serious, Magnanimous

  Leon Trotsky (1980). “The History of the Russian Revolution”, Anchor Foundation

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• Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Believe, Reality, Suffering

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• Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

  Bea Arthur

  Fighting, Animal, Choices

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• I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about

  Jung Chang

  Thinking, Past, People

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• People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Believe, People, Weapons

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• World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Pain, Use

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1866). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetical works”, p.222

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• The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

  Edward Irving

  Respect, Heart, Grieving

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• Even so, one step from my grave,
  I believe that cruelty, spite,
  The powers of darkness will in time
  Be crushed by the spirit of light.

  Boris Pasternak

  Time, Believe, Light

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Jon Stallworthy, Peter France (1983). “Selected poems”, Lane, Allen

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• It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

  Lionel Trilling

  Spiritual, Contemplation, Badness

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• Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

  Joan D. Vinge

  Worry, Age, Woe

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