“ The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. ”
- Friedrich Engels- Copy
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“ To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints are passed, the hellishness of war drives us to break with every remaining restraint in order to win. Here is the ultimate tyranny: those who resist aggression are forced to imitate, and perhaps even to exceed, the brutality of the aggressor. ”
- Michael Walzer- Copy
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“ We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ”
- La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ It's about sitting faithfully in England while thousands of miles away terrible atrocities are being committed in our name. ”
- Adrian Mitchell- Copy
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“ It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. ”
- Paul Tillich- Copy
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“ Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ So much violence in the world seems beyond our control, but this is one cruelty we can stop by being informed consumers. ”
- Martha Stewart- Copy
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“ Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. ”
- Robert F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. ”
- Jodie Foster- Copy
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“ In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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