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“Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.”

Form Powerful Moral Mankind Pure Institutions Charity Cruelty Combination Most Powerful Benevolence Superstitious Rite Pernicious

Book:John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

Source: John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

“Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.”

World Lost Religious Mankind Fields Materials Weapons Destruction Instruments Cruelty Our Time Warfare Explosions Supplies Theological Another World Discord Butchers

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.”

Differences Animal Mankind Victim Cruelty Brutality

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“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.”

Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer

“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”

Men Kind Kindness Mankind Cruelty

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

People Men Sometimes Speak Animal Mankind Cruelty Beast Offensive Unjust Deep Thought

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky