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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

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.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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