Top 1200 Violence And Cruelty Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention of the fact that the United States and Israel reject all three of those. They obviously don't recognize Palestine, they certainly don't withdraw the use of violence or the threat of it - in fact they insist on it - and they don't accept past agreements, including the road map.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

I think that's the biggest misconception when people want to live a more clean, cruelty-free life is, 'I can't do that. It's going to be so hard.' But I say do some research. You'd be surprised!

The violence perpetrated by men against women must stop - and it's up to men to stop it. It is up to men to speak up and step in when they witness violence against women, and it is up to men to condemn the indefensible actions of the few and assert the will of the many.

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

I have always been interested in theatre and after reading the script for THE INFLICTION OF CRUELTY, I thought that being part of this show and the Fringe would be a great experience.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by that life which they are taught and accustomed to lead.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

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.

Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

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

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.

Even when someone fails, there's never an underlying nastiness or cruelty. We're an affectionate show and we're not poking fun at anyone. Strictly' is feel-good television at its finest.

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.

Shelter dogs should be adopted into loving homes, not used in cruel experiments. That's why I support the Cruelty Free International global dog campaign.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to for help and support. As a child survivor of domestic violence I can remember the fear and isolation. I'm delighted to support the Hideout, the new Women's Aid website for children and young people. I know it could have made a real difference to me and will provide great comfort and support to thousands of children.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.