Cruelty Quotes - Page 7

• The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Hate, Men, History

  "Visions of Reality - A Study of Abnormal Perception and Behavior". Book by Alberto Rivas, p. 162, 2007.

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• The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as inferior to the Spaniards as children are to adults and women are to men, there being as much difference between them as that between wild and cruel and very merciful persons, the prodigiously intemperate and the continent and tempered, and I daresay from apes to men

  Juan Gines de Sepulveda

  Children, Men, Differences

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• When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Men, Compassion

  1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

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• It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Mistake, Men, May

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.19

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• Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

  Will Schwalbe

  Evil

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.130, Vintage

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• Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mother, Justice, Mercy

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• Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

  William Penn

  Law, Justice

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• Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

  Alexis Carrel

  Animal, Soul, World

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• The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

  Mencius

  Compassion, Two, Want

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• Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

  Chris Hedges

  Evil, Identity, Injustice

  Chris Hedges (2011). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.15, Nation Books

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• Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

  Edward Bach

  Real, Hate, Ignorance

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.15, McGraw Hill Professional

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• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

  Libba Bray

  Art, Pain, Regret

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Pity

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• If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

  Martin Firrell

  Moral, Obedience, Duty

  "Keep the Faith". Text projections in the Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain, London, 2006.

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• Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

  Margaret Sanger

  Family, Fighting, Jail

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.308, Inkling Books

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• To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

  Hugh Blair

  Unhappy, Misery, Creatures

  Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18

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• The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Greed, Awareness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

  Thomas Harris

  Animal, Humanity, Emotion

  "Fictional character: Dr. Hannibal Lecter". TV Series "Hannibal" ("Coquilles", 2013), www.imdb.com. 2013–2015.

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• I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Tyrants, Evil

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• The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

  Tennessee Williams

  Unforgivable Sin, Deliberate, Sin

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• He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Animal, Doe, Animal Rights

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• Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Love, Animal, Understanding

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• Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, War, Animal Rights

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• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Heart, Men, Animal

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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