Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.
Rachel CarsonTag: science progress humanity courage killing cruelty expectations
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy."
[Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience]
Tag: war foreign-policy literature prejudice travel fighting cruelty xenophobia narrow-mindedness
In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.
AberjhaniTag: fear truth love war heaven human-nature spirituality violence cruelty terrorism world-suicide-prevention-day police-reform police-shootings nonviolent-conflict-resolution
Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.
Anne HolmTag: wisdom people violence cruelty problem
I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.
Belinda JeffreyTag: animals humans cruelty inflict
For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.
Carl SaganTag: war america usa moon human-nature human hypocrisy cruelty colonialism bomb
Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: punishment cruelty unkindness richelle wrongs richelle-goodrich
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.
J.M. CoetzeeTag: peace tyranny sympathy isolation cruelty
I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food systems have any righteous ground to stand on, nor do I think a deep look at the sentient life of plants or the true environmental impact of agriculture permits them any comfortable distance from cruelty. Everything in this world eats something else to survive, and that something else, whether running on blood or chlorophyll, would always rather continue to live rather than become sustenance for another. No animal wants to be penned up and milked, or caged and harvested, and you've never seen plants growing in regimented lines of their own accord.
Brian AwehaliTag: vegetarianism food ethics veganism cruelty animal-intelligence plant-intelligence
To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.
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