A Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

Walter Savage Landor

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Applying Consider Crime Cruelty Equally Greatest Madness Means Oppression

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Walter Savage Landor
English - Poet
January 30, 1775 - September 17, 1864

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Ingrid Newkirk

We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

Margaret Thatcher

The key to contentment is to consider. Consider who you are and be satisfied with that. Consider what you have and be satisfied with that. Consider what God's doing and be satisfied with that. You will be amazed at how much more comfortable you'll feel with yourself. Finally, consider this: If contentment cannot be found within yourself, you'll never find it.

Luci Swindoll

In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

Leo Tolstoy

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Sam Esmail

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Sigmund Freud

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Demosthenes

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Vladimir Nabokov

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

Kaya Scodelario

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

Pope Francis

We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.