#cruelty

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#doctrine #guilt #make #nothing #ourselves

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq. ↗

— Clare Short

#go #going #guantanamo #i #i think

All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form ↗

— The Cruxshadows

#animal-abuse #animal-right #cruelty #life

Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued. ↗

— Keisha Keenleyside

#cruelty #dogs #pets #sad #life

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ... ↗

— James Hurst

#hurst #ibis #james #knot #love

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#cruelty #love #loved #sexes #unrequited

I don't like cruel jokes - I've worn myself out laughing at the world. It has made me too self-deprecating to laugh at myself. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #laughter #self-deprecation #funny

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#cruelty

Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves. ↗

— Richard Adams

#evil #human-cruelty #men

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealins with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#philosophy #men