Cruelty Quotes - Page 8

• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Beautiful, Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Pride, Order, Opposites

  "The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy".

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• What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

  William Blake

  Pride, Two, Wife

  William Blake (1964). “Jerusalem: A Simplified Version”

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• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Men, Principles

  "Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (p. 257), 1972.

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• Man is the cruelest animal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.169, Algora Publishing

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• It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

  Benjamin Franklin

  Silence, Goes On, Fool

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Truth without compassion is Cruelty.

  Antero Alli

  Love, Compassion

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  What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hurt, Pain, Bystanders

  "Courage To Care - Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust" by Carol Rittner and Sandra Meyers, NYU Press, (p. 2), 1986.

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• We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Humanity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

  Vernon Howard

  Mean, Animal, Civilization

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  We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fighting, Compassion, Animal

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• To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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• Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Kindness, Men, Mankind

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.421, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

  Bette Greene

  Men, Incapable, Seems

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• We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Animal, Men

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• My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Hatred, Intellectual

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• In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.

  Peter Schmeichel

  Football, Together, Sometimes

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• The secret of poetry is cruelty.

  Jon Anderson

  Secret, Poetry Is

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• A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

  Muhammad

  Animal, Deeds Done, Vegetarian

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• Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Facts, Oppression

  Statement to the Argentine Society of Letters, 1946.

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• Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Integrity, Consistency, Needs

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.206, Pan Macmillan

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• Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more kindness. And remember one more thing: Those who remind you of this simple fact-keep them close

  Dalia Mogahed

  Kindness, Simple, World

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• There is no beast more cruel than man.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Men, Beast

  Leonid Andreyev (1914). “Savva: The Life of Man; Two Plays”

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• Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

  Ali MacGraw

  Animal, Violence, Vegetarian

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