#cruelty

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

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#bitter #cold #cruelty #fruit #love

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves. ↗

— César Chávez

#animal-kindness #animal-rights #vegan #vegetarian #love

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

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#believe #cruelty #fact #human #human suffering

Fear is the parent of cruelty. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#fear #parent

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#desperately #i #longer #monotonous #nothing

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

— Ali MacGraw

#deep #i #level #touched #very

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. ↗

— Bette Midler

#because #big #conformity #cruelty #group