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In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
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Pete Waterman
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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
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Josiah Warren
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I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.
Author:
Julie Walters
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Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
Author:
Joan Vinge
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Leon Trotsky
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It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
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Paul Tillich
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I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.
Author:
Brent Spiner
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I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
Author:
Clare Short
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
Author:
William Sherman
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
Author:
William Sherman
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I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
Author:
Dinah Sheridan
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
Author:
George Shaw
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Farewell, fair cruelty.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
Author:
Anna Sewell
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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.
Author:
Anna Sewell
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Lucius Seneca
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I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
Author:
Richard Russo
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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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.
Author:
Josiah Royce
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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.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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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.
Author:
Elihu Root
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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.
Author:
Henry Rollins
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To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Author:
Maximilien Robespierre
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Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
Author:
Phaedrus
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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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.
Author:
Boris Pasternak
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War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?
Author:
Soledad O'Brien
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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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.
Author:
Kate Millett
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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.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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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.
Author:
Bette Midler
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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.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Author:
Rue McClanahan
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Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
Author:
Francois Mauriac
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I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
Author:
Ali MacGraw
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Author:
James Lowell
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Author:
Alphonse Lamartine
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Author:
Ken Kesey
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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Author:
Robinson Jeffers
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Author:
Harriet Jacobs
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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.
Author:
Edward Irving
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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.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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Zora Hurston
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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Author:
Frank Herbert
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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.
Author:
Jasmine Guy
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Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
Author:
John Grierson
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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.
Author:
William Gladstone
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Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
Author:
J. Fulbright
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Author:
James Froude
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Author:
Jodie Foster
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
Author:
George Eliot
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Author:
George Eliot
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Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Author:
Andrea Dworkin
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As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
Author:
Morarji Desai
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I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
Author:
Morarji Desai
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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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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.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.
Author:
Linda Chavez
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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.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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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.
Author:
George Bush
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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.
Author:
George Bush
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Author:
Elizabeth Browning
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Author:
Elizabeth Bowen
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There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.
Author:
Anthony Blunt
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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!
Author:
William Blake
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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.
Author:
John Berger
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To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
Author:
Bea Arthur
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
Author:
Pamela Anderson
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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.
Author:
Renata Adler
