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Quotations on Cruelty 57 Quotes Found Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. 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! There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice. Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march. The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about. What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty. Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's. As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed. Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. 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. The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others. Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals. Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell. Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that. Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement. The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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