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  • 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.

    "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.
  • Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

    "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.
  • To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

    Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18
  • 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.

  • The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.

  • Until 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. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

    Peace   War   Heart  
    "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.
  • We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

    Cousin   Animal   Rights  
    Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)
  • Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986
  • Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

  • 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.

    Religious   Peace   Men  
  • Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.

  • The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.

    Hurt   Pain   Animal  
  • Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986
  • The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

  • Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

    Memories   Men   Animal  
  • 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.

  • The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

    Death   Catholic   Dying  
    "Pope John Paul Assails 'Free Love' in Poland". www.nytimes.com. June 05, 1991.
  • Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

    Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.288, Simon and Schuster
  • Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

    Dean Koontz (2007). “Intensity: A Novel”, p.292, Bantam
  • 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.

    Jesus   Men   Names  
    "Do What You Will" by Aldous Huxley, (p. 3), 1928.
  • The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

    Dog   Nature   Greatness  
  • never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

    Flower   Saffron   Bees  
    Edna O'Brien (2007). “The Light of Evening”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

  • 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.

    War   Animal   Soul  
  • Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

  • Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

    Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.69, A&C Black
  • The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

    The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2
  • He’s ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)

    Evil   Leader   Made  
  • It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

  • Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

    Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.295, Mondial
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