Cruelty proverbs

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◆ The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

- Yukio Mishima99

◆ All cruelty springs from weakness.

- Seneca99

◆ We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

- Tana French99

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

- Immanuel Kant99

◆ All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

- Tennessee Williams99

◆ There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

- Tom Stoppard99

◆ Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

- Thomas Paine99

◆ I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

- Tom Hiddleston99

◆ There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn't make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point of view because deep down you know you can't win. It's better to assert yourself and tell the person you are moving on without them and why, rather than leave a lasting impression of cowardness on your part in a person's mind by avoiding them.

- Shannon L. Alder99

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

- Cassandra Clare99