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Tag Name "Cruelty" (473)

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Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.
George Herbert
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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Mason Cooley
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Cruelty towards animals and child abuse make me feel vulnerable. I wish there was more I could do. I try to spread positive messages through my social media.
Matt Sorum
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
George Bernard Shaw
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Cruelty is the only sin.
Ellen Glasgow
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.
Rose Macaulay
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Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
Rick Yancey
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Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.
Victoria Moran
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Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.
Jodie Foster
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
Walter Savage Landor
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
Walter Savage Landor
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.
Immanuel Kant
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Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.
Ludovico Ariosto
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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
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Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.
William Jones
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dreed.
Adolf Hitler
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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
Bertrand Russell
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Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.
Annie Dillard
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
Alexander von Humboldt
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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
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