- Mercy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cruel Quotes
On cruelty in power, illness, and public life.
This page collects observations on cruelty wherever it shows up, in social hierarchies, in the entertainment industry, and in the unpredictable nature of serious illness. For related themes, browse the Cruelty quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
- Animal Products
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- Nov 07, 2020
Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Badminton is a cruel sport.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.
- Doughnut
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer is a cruel killer. It creeps up on us when we aren't expecting it. But cake is not cancer. A doughnut does not creep up on you.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
- Misery
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
- Nov 07, 2020