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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.

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

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

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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.

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.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

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.

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

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.

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

I think it’s a real gift to be faced with man’s potential for extreme cruelty but also man’s resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It’s the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it’s not a passive thing.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.

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