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“Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?”

Feels Family Members Treats Stranger Cruelty Privileged Exhibits

Author:Fannie Hurst

“Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.”

Enjoy Pleasure Violence Effects Disease Treats Cruelty Novelists Carrier Evacuation Violence And Cruelty

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Names Nations Felt Animal Dog Civilization Treats Shame Prosperity Extremes Income Cruelty Illegal Human History Percentages Unprecedented Affordability

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”

“We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”

Pain Sports Ought Treats Cruelty Distress Insects Amusement Wanton Cuckoos

Book:The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Source: The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

“I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. I think that's what helps the advice sink in. If somebody comes at you with both barrels, the first shot opens your head, and the second shot allows the advice to get lodged inside.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Writing Firsts Sometimes Helping Advice Shots My Friends Treats Supreme Cruelty Barrels

Author:Dan Savage

“I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.”

People Treats Cruelty Gentle Loving Life

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.”

Way Easy Community Treats Harder Prejudice Remains Cruelty Target Abstraction

Author:Andrew Solomon

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

Source: Lectures on Ethics

“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.”

“If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty. You must fight others through peace and through dialogue and through education.”

Ifs Would Be Fighting Differences Treats Dialogue Cruelty Taliban

Author:Malala Yousafzai