Browsing Topic Best Cruelty Quotes

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty – that’s positive.

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.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

It makes no sense in a global health crisis to compound failure with cruelty by inhibiting access to needed humanitarian assistance…our sanctions are limiting Iran’s access to needed equipment. The Trump Administration should take immediate steps to address this problem.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

I’m as cruel as life. As cruel as love.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Kindness and compassion towards 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.

I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.