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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." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"All cruelty springs from weakness." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without." »Rue McClanahan
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"cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal." »Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)
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"Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty." »Raisa M. Gorbachev
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"My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." »Vladimir Nabokov
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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell." »Bertrand Russell
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." »Vladimir Nabokov
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"When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner." »William Shakespeare, Henry V
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"The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history." »Joseph Conrad
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"Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others." »Marquis de Sade
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"Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham." »Frederick Douglas
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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." »Pope John Paul II
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"Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings." »Felix Frankfurter
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"My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred." »Albert Einstein
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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." »Bertrand Russell
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""What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith." »Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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"You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for" »Dag Hammarskjld
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"It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more." »Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"Kindness and compassion toward 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. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." »Cesar Chavez, letter
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"Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty." »Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
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"Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty." »Samuel Johnson
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