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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. (Quote by - William Cowper)

What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)

If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty รป- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier. (Quote by - Bruce Lahn)

It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)

This is a crime like I've never seen, one of infinite cruelty. They (the children) were infinitely helpless. (Quote by - David Lamb)

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. (Quote by - Alexander Hume)

All cruelty springs from weakness. (Quote by - Seneca)

The nature and degree of violence described by the victim and corroborated by the extent of her injuries is consistent with extreme cruelty and sadistic torture. (Quote by - Detective Bryan Jamison)

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. (Quote by - Alphonse de Lamartine)

All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness. (Quote by - Seneca)

If this lady is guilty of anything, it's loving these animals too much. She has them in her house. She has more than most people have in her house. But that is not cruelty. It may be eccentric. It may be unconventional. But it's not cruelty. (Quote by - David Sibley)

They are part of an animal cruelty investigation. (Quote by - Chuck McDevitt)

Despite the unique cruelty of this case, there is unfortunately certain historical experience, and unfortunately, I believe it may have been repeated. This experience concerns the idea that the authorities, without a doubt, carry some of the blame. (Quote by - Taimuraz Mamsurov)

A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved- but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty- free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. (Quote by - Beatrice Arthur)

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. (Quote by - Dinah Sheridan)

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity. (Quote by - Edward Bach)

We probably deal with animal cruelty cases on a weekly basis, but not animal cruelty of this nature. (Quote by - Barry Pruitt)

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable, grew, blossomed and bore fruit in this one word, Hell. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)

I would love to see the grimace he Marquis de Cinq-Mars is now making on the scaffold. (Quote by - Louis XIII)

The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another. (Quote by - Thomas Tryon)

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)

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