Cruelty Quotations

The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.

Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

I've always been fascinated by accounts of seemingly 'normal' people who have committed horrendous acts of cruelty and violence. You hear it on the news all the time.

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

I was known for being talented, but I was still the fat girl. And it wasn't what people were looking for. There's a lot that you hear. There's a lot of cruelty out there. Some of it comes from the executive offices. It comes from other artists at times. It was a very difficult thing to overcome.

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

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

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

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

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

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

There are certain forms in which vice appears not only monstrous, but ridiculous; the cruelty of Nero is more disgusting than that of Tiberius.

Usually, defendants involved in these cases have other charges against them, and animal cruelty falls in line at the bottom.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

Let us remember, there is a people, who share the government and name of Britons; among whom the cruelty of Sparta is renewed without its virtue.

Most people are not coming to the game because they want to support cruelty to animals. They are simply unaware.

One of the things I recommend is to call the Alliance Police Department. Every single officer cares about animals and wants to try and do what they can for them. Alliance is really a progressive community when it comes to animal cruelty and abuse.

People won't think it will be enforced. It's already hard enough to enforce cruelty to animals.

One thing I would love to see is the state put more teeth in their animal cruelty laws.

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel

I feel the suffering of millions and yet when I look up into the skies I somehow feel everything will change for the better, that this cruelty will end, that peace will return again once more.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.

Today let us hear the bell ring loud and clear and true to our conscience, ... Let it ring out a century of cruelty and destruction and let it ring in a millennium of hope and peace.

KFC has the ability to stop this cruelty today, simply by implementing the changes recommended by its own advisors, ... While KFC drags its feet, chickens continue to suffer unnecessarily.

It is noteworthy that the first effect of contact with the whites was an increase of cruelty and barbarity, an intensifying of the dark shadows in the picture!

Like most people, I don't want to support cruelty to animals, whether it's forcing horses to race for our amusement or scalding chickens alive for our plate. We have to be more evolved than this.

We hope they will realize that human nature contains both compassion and cruelty and that we all are capable of both. In either case, you are responsible. Nobody gets off free.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

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

We're just astonished that fishers would even be upset seeing a dog with a hook through his mouth. It does show that there's potential for them to realize that fishing is cruelty to animals.

Turning animal cruelty into a game is absolutely hideous.

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

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Cruelty to animals needs to be a matter of public concern as it directly affect public safety and human welfare. It can no longer be perceived of as merely an issue of animal welfare.

Anger cannot be destroyed by anger and cruelty by cruelty.

Anger can be subdued only by forbearance and cruelty can be overcome only by nonviolence.

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.

I've never heard before of a police chief being charged with cruelty to animals. It could have happened somewhere, but I've not heard of it. I think it's a victory in that the laws that have been enacted to protect animals are being enforced, regardless of whether that person is chief of police or average Joe.

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

So much violence in the world seems beyond our control, but this is one cruelty we can stop by being informed consumers.

Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and, frankly, better understand the innate cruelty of abortion and its horrific legacy - victims - while making us more determined than ever to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable.

Now it is time to deal with animal cruelty in the shooting industry.

Anyone capable of this kind of cruelty possesses a serious risk, not just to animals, but to fellow human beings.

Anyone capable of this kind of cruelty poses a serious risk, not just to animals, but to fellow human beings as well. Communities should be concerned when animal abusers are found in their midst. Research in psychology and criminology reveals a consistent pattern of cruelty to animals among perpetrators of violence toward humans.

This extremely violent and depraved act of animal cruelty is particularly disturbing, not only because of the unimaginable suffering this dog was forced to endure, but also because of the implications such cruelty holds for the safety of the community at large.

This is a dastardly crime as far as I'm concerned...It's the type of cruelty we absolutely have to send a message on, ... This is just not acceptable in this jurisdiction.

They are part of an animal cruelty investigation.

There was feces at least 3 inches deep throughout house. ... This really moves to a cruelty situation.

It is the worst case of animal cruelty I have seen.

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

I want to inform people about the cruelty that goes on with the chicken they sell. I'm doing my best to get the word out.

It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

I personally think animal cruelty is a social issue. In our community, it is a horrific problem.

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

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

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

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

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

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.