Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
Chris CleaveTags: fight cruelty insult antagonistic
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
Walter ScottNone of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion.
He was an old lion, prepared from birth to lose his life rather than to leave it. But he had the dignity of all free creatures, and so he was allowed his moment. It was hardly a glorious moment.
The two men who shot him were indifferent as men go, or perhaps they were less than that. At least they shot him without killing him, and then turned the unsconscionable eye of a camera upon his agony. It was a small, a stupid, but a callous crime.
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Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
Martin AmisTags: cruelty
Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
Yevgeny ZamyatinTags: truth lie lying cruelty cruel
I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death?' I forget the decision.
Charles LambTags: food suffering taste justification cruelty pig flavor
Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn’t.
Brigid BrophyTags: cruelty
(...) ograniczenie umysłowe i okrucieństwo ludzkie nie zna granic.
Olga TokarczukTags: people narrowmindedness cruelty
It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: cruelty l-m-montgomery
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: animals goodness cruelty
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