Top 1200 Animal Cruelty Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Man has been adjudged a social animal.

Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must take a stand against petty or protracted hostility between girls.

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts we wear and the tomatoes we eat. There are unfortunately unfair and inhumane conditions - including literal slavery - all over the world.

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

I am quite an animal and nature lover.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

We're the only animal that wakes up and doesn't stretch.

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

Orcas are my spirit animal. That's my favorite mammal.

I've always been painted as this party animal.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Man has injured every animal he has touched.

I love animals. I'm a big animal lover.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

For the animal kingdom, the Holocaust never ended.

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

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

Cast down, O Lord, all the forces of cruelty and wrong. Defeat all selfish and worldly-minded schemes, and prosper all that is conceived among us in the spirit of Christ and carried out to the honour of His blessed name. Amen.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy death row murderess - and to imagine how these disparate individuals see the world's cruelty and beauty and vastness.

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold

Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

I rely a great deal on animal instincts.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

My dad was a pretty social animal when he wasn't working.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill of watching something die. Why does the stereotype of the animalistic killer persist? Because humans like it. It neatly explains things for them, moving humans to the top of the evolutionary ladder and putting killers down among mythological man-beast monsters like werewolves. The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

I'm animal obsessed! I basically have a farm in my house.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

And in that hour, The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd To such gigantic and enormous growth, Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil. Hence date the persecution and the pain That man inflicts on all inferior kinds, Regardless of their plaints.

Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it.

...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.