#cruel

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. ↗

— Stephen King

#god #live #makes #sometimes #you

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fear #pity #softened

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice. ↗

— Anthony Blunt

#ceaseless #cruelty #drunkenness #vice #war

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#allowed #basic #basic human rights #blacks #cruelty

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. ↗

— John Gay

#cowards #cruel #delight #love #mercy

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 Kant

#becomes #cruel #dealings #hard #heart

We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food. ↗

— César Chávez

#animal-kindness #animal-rights #exploitation #nonviolent #vegan

In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people. ↗

— Ruth Harrison

#food-for-thought #vegan #food

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#cruel #founded #greater #more #power

The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others? ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#art #bosco #cale #child #clothes