Quotes
Quotes about Cruelty
'T is a cruelty
To load a falling man.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
I'm sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots." -George T. Angell, reformer (1823-1909)
If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatow will have to come back countless times as a lab rat for all the cruelty he has promoted on NPR.
people who are willing to kill animals just to satisfy their greed for meat are ultimately, really, killing themselves by their cruelty . . . that is God at work http://www.egroups.com/messages/christianveg.
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, letâs begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.
It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.]
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon our society than the others.
Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane; But pain is not the fruit of pain.
We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beasts Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites We never pause to wonder at our feasts If animals, like men, can possibly have rights We pray on Sundays that we may have light To guide our footsteps on the path we tread We're sick of war We do not want to fight The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat Regardless of the suffering and pain We cause by doing so. If thus we treat Defenseless animals for sport or gain How can we hope in this world to attain the PEACE we say we are so anxious for We pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain To God, while outraging the moral law Thus cruelty begets its offspring: war.
Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy.
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
