Cruelty Quotes - Page 9

• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

  Francois Mauriac

  Children, Discipline, Doe

  "Journal, 1932-1939". Book by François Mauriac, Table ronde, p. 278, 1947.

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mother, Cowardice

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)”, p.683, e-artnow

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• [There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Names, People, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Men, Religion

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.88, Psychology Press

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• But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady rule of right seems there to be attended to; and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers.

  David Hume

  Revenge, Islam, Hurtful

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.135

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Facts, World, Ethics

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Eye, Humanity

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• The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Revenge, Heart, Men

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• I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

  Anne Frank

  Encouraging, Hope, Sky

  Anne Frank (1995). “Anne Frank”, Bantam Books

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• I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Book, Animal, America

  "Why Ellen Went Vegan". www.peta.org. November 09, 2009.

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• I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

  William Hogarth

  Compassion, Cartoon, Four

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• Anger cannot be destroyed by anger and cruelty by cruelty.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Destroyed

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• If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.

  Mark Bittman

  Heart, Simple, Animal

  Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.58, Clarkson Potter

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• all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.

  Stevie Smith

  Animal, Our Love, Able

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• To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

  Phyllis Bottome

  Wise, Strong, Ignorance

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.72, Northwestern University Press

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• Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

  Cesar Chavez

  Kindness, Animal, Compassion

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• Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Men, Inhumanity To Man

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• A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Religious, Pride

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• cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

  Rae Foley

  Sin, Unforgivable, Strikes

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• This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Opportunity, Simple

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• People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.565, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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