Top 1200 Human Cruelty Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

If there is a person behaving more destructively in popular culture than Mario Lavandeira, I cannot think of one. He has used cruelty as a crass mechanism to build up his own celebrity and has utilized political correctness to protect himself while using it as a weapon to dehumanize those he doesn't agree with.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and furbelows of a human psyche is fascinating.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering.

I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.

He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.

Hollywood, Twitter, our friends - they all contribute to a community of snark. The more we engage in the way that everyone else engages, the more followers, likes, and RTs we get. But we can't rail against the cyberbullies without acknowledging what we also contribute to a culture of cruelty.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary, rework our conception of human importance, but also to ensure that our best conception is indeed the lens through which we look at our fellow human beings.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

You’d make an enemy out of me over a human?” The word “human” might as well have been “rodent.

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.

The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed.

When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands.

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

I don't think there's one right way to do anything. There's no one best way to be a woman. There's no best way to be a mentor. I'm just trying to be me and be authentic and live my truth and be as inclusive and interested in other human beings as possible. I'm an actor by training, which means that I study human beings and human behavior. That's what I try to do and what I love to do.

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

You know, Vik, you’re amazingly human at times. (Alix) I know. But I wonder if the feelings I have are real or just electrical stimulations in my cortex that simulate human emotion. I wish I knew if they were real or imagined. (Vik) And that makes you completely human, sweetie. We all have those doubts. (Alix)

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.

What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.

If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.

The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.

When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people - they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.

You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.