I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.
Philip PullmanFear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: fear superstition cruelty
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel KantStichwörter: judge morality animal-rights cruelty treatment
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
Tom StoppardIn fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.
Ruth HarrisonStichwörter: vegan cruelty food-for-thought
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[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: morality conscience hell cruelty dishonesty double-standards
April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.
Stichwörter: poetry seasons april cruelty weather
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas PaineStichwörter: murder belief bible cruelty the-bible cruel rapine
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People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor DostoevskyStichwörter: animals mankind cruelty
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
Yukio MishimaStichwörter: love beauty cruelty
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