#cruelty

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. ↗

— John Berger

#around #cite #cruelty #evil #human

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#brain #cruelty #fantasy #heated #private

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

— George Eliot

#every #itself #like #motive #only

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. ↗

— George Eliot

#cruelty #direct #effect #ignorant #kindness

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#agree #beliefs #better #bring #context

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#am #any #cruelty #dominance #i

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

— Thomas Hardy

#get #law #nature #out #pervading

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#enormous #except #gentle #haitian #haitian people

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#over #reform #sooner #trying #use

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#apply #christ #church #cruelty #desertion