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  • When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

    Sports   Men   Compassion  
    1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.
  • That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his satanic missionaries. The fact is that the historical experience of the black Jamaican is an experience of the most acute human suffering, desolation and despair in the cruel world that is the colonial world.

  • Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

    Writing   Mean   Survival  
    Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company
  • These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.

    God   Nature   Animal  
  • universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive
  • Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

    Character   Animal   Men  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.15, Publishdrive
  • 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 Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive
  • There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

    Hope   World   Emptiness  
    "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.
  • If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

    Religious   Peace   Men  
  • Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.

  • Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

    Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)
  • I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  • Everything starts with yourself / with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

    Kids   Mind   World  
  • I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.

    Girl   Heart   Eye  
    FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Dec 31, 2013
  • Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  • We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

  • It's a cruel world, don't you think?

    Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.497, Scholastic Inc.
  • No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

    George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
  • Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.

    Real   Mean   Peaceful  
  • The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

    The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2
  • Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

    Track   World   Favourite  
  • We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

    Dog   Heart   Animal  
    "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.
  • When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

  • I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

  • In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

    Kindness   World   Should  
  • People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."

    Sexy   Song   Thinking  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

    Love   Peace   Revenge  
  • Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

    Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher
  • Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

    Life   Peace   Honesty  
    "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,
  • My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

    God   Christian   Atheist  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
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