#crue

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#kindness #cruelty

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#animal-rights #animals #theodor-w-adorno #cruelty

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. ↗

— Gary Larson

#cruelty #hell #cruelty

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#cruelty

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. ↗

— César Chávez

#animal-kindness #animal-rights #vegan #vegetarian #cruelty

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ? ↗

— Anne Rice

#shame #cruelty

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#cruel #sky #world #ocean

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Coward! you have fled from it, not opposed seduction. But the day of Trial will arrive! Oh! then when you yield to impetuous passions! when you feel that Man is weak, and born to err; When shuddering you look back upon your crimes, and solicit with terror the mercy of your God, Oh! in that fearful moment think upon me! Think upon your Cruelty! Think upon Agnes, and despair of pardon! ↗

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

#arrogance #callousness #catholicism #cold-hearted-people #cruelty

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#especially #female #flesh #fresh #hollywood

I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#nature #philosophy #nature