Best victim & cruelty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.”

Men Heart Two Differences Animal Ethics Victim Cruelty Former Pet Latter Animal Ethics Two Hearts

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.”

Ifs Looks Easy Views Murder Victim Slavery Injustice Excuse Point Of View Cruelty Inequality Angle Rationalize

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.”

Political Culture Social Justice Dark Economic Subjects Masters Diversity Victim Social Justice Guilt Greed Educational Cruelty Ghetto Colony Insensitivity

Book:Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

Source: Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

“He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.”

Source: Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings

“When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?”

“Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.”

Firsts Heart Done Moving Suffering Next Animal Poor Victim Harm Tyranny Resistance Cruelty Touching Animal Rights Cowardice Brutes Satanic Animal World Animal Compassion

Author:John Henry Newman

“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.”

Mean Speak Interest Animal Position Higher Authority Abuse Victim Injustice Cruelty Vulnerable Powerless Behalf Representing Speaks Out Overlooked

Author:Desmond Tutu

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