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“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.”

Ifs Men Real Self Hate Found Ignorance Pride Self Love Disease Unity Greed Cruelty Primaries Defects Adverse Instability

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

“Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.”

Thinking World May Shows Hate Understanding Ignorance Hatred Add Cruelty Cures Flames Fuel Here And There

Book:Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty

Source: Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty

“Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.”

Knows Should Persons Two Hate Evil Love Is Compassion Virtue Ignorance Intelligent Intelligence Superiors Cruelty Arrogance Intolerance Gentleness Forbearance Intelligent Person

Author:J. Martin Klotsche

“We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.”

Way America Example Ignorance Advantage Patterns Corruption Cruelty Avarice Treachery Inhumanity Incline Inexperience

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.”

Hours Natural Darkness Ignorance Fit Cruelty Beast Prey Dwelling Dwelling Place

Book:Treasury of David

Source: Treasury of David

“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.”

“The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.”

World Military Ignorance Discipline Absence Cruelty Drunkenness Inactivity Debauchery

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.”

Simple Ignorance Willing Comfortable Faults Complexes Cruelty Occasions Privacy Patriotic Devoted Vessel Opinionated Allergic Bad Music

Author:Bernie Taupin

“I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Wells May Religion Universe Names Ignorance Sight Responsible Cruelty Ashamed Hiding Followers Promoting

Author:Philip Pullman

“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.”

“Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.”

“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.”

Philosophy Hate Causes Fear Results Violence Positive Ignorance Cruelty Equations Theologian Polymaths

Author:Averroes