“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.” MindBodySeemsAnimalPovertyAtheismMiseryPositive AtheismNakedCrueltyAnimal CrueltySunbathing Book:The Story of Julian Source: The Story of Julian
“Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.” FightingFamilyPovertyChildhoodDebtCrueltyJailUnemploymentToilDrunkennessLarge Family Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic
“I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.” PovertyTerribleEqualStandardsCrueltyPrimariesEmphasisStandards Of Living Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.” WorldHumansWarSufferingJusticeHuman BeingsPovertyKindnessAnd LoveFilledGreedCrueltyGenerosityIndifferenceDecencyGenerosity And Kindness Author:Mary Doria Russell
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” PeopleWorldInspirationalHas BeensWarCountryProblemRunningFacesPoliticalDeathLeaderPovertyMillionsInjusticeStupidityTyrannyCrueltyObedienceJailConformityTyrantsThievesPettyDisobedienceStarvationObedientCivil Disobedience Author:Howard Zinn