Top 1200 Violence And Cruelty Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can tell - because it's part of life itself. In the world of the hamburger stand and the supermarket, or the vegan café and the ashram, you might try to tell yourself it's possible to be nonviolent. In a hunting and gathering society, violence is more difficult to hide.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining in an antiviolence movement has to go beyond opting for nonviolence in one's personal life. It calls for engaging in imaginative and forceful practices of nonviolent resistance to violence, including taking a stand toward entertainment violence.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.

I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

I think my cruelty hides beneath the surface a lot more than Sue Sylvester's.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world. That sparked violence in various parts of the world, including violence directed against Western facilities including our embassies and consulates.

You know, obviously I wish the violence would go down, but not as much as the Iraqi citizens would wish the violence would go down. But, incredibly enough, they showed great courage, and they want our help.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.

What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.