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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. -- Pope John Paul II
People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy. -- David Chase
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty. -- Steven Pinker
Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change. -- Martin Amis
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance. -- Alice Walker
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. -- Victor Hugo
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As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness. -- Richard Gere
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless creatures, it increases our receptivity to human cruelty and war and steals our humanity, peace and soul. Very little speeds and greases your way to Hell, like animal cruelty. -- Russell Boyd
There is a certain beauty in our intrinsic human cruelty. -- youssef
He's ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God. -- Aldous Huxley
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim. -- Michael Ignatieff
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human. -- Storm Jameson
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman. -- Hugh Blair
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. -- Dean Koontz
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath. -- Ernest Renan
Human cruelty knows no limits and one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment. -- Brigitte Bardot
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. -- Jodie Foster
To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. -- Isaac Asimov
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. -- Isaac Asimov
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. -- Robinson Jeffers
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. -- Andrea Dworkin
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. -- John Berger
How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs? -- Kenneth Branagh
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. -- Linda Chavez
Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties. -- Steven Pinker
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement. -- Josiah Royce
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. -- Alice Walker
Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. -- Tanith Lee
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. -- Hannibal
Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option. -- Jodie Foster
Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script. -- Johnny Rich
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of "?power' over other species. -- Ian Somerhalder
What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition. -- Glen Duncan
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. -- Rachel Carson
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty. -- William Ralph Inge
You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions. -- Stuart Hill

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