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«My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt»
Author: Anna Sewell
(Novelist)
| About:
Cruelty
| Keywords:
cruelty, do-nothing, doctrine, guilt, sharer, sharers
«Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.»
«One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel»
Author: Thomas Fowell Buxton
| About:
Cruelty
| Keywords:
bystander, bystanders, cruel, cruelty, effects
«Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Childhood,
Cruelty,
Habit,
Instinct,
Memory,
Men,
Youth
| Keywords:
attributed, extract, inherited, shown, thoughtlessness
«Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.»
«Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Beauty,
Cruelty,
Culture,
Custom,
Education,
Strength,
Traditions,
Weakness
| Keywords:
accepts, beauties, cruelties, cultures, custom, human culture, it accepts, overlap, overlapping, patiently, Real Character, reduced, sufferings, tradition, Two Cultures
«In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty»
«If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cruelty,
Destiny,
Freedom,
Slavery
| Keywords:
abused, cruelties, scorned, The opposition, Tho, tied, tied up
«Men are cruel, but Man is kind.»
«Farewell, fair cruelty.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Cruelty,
Goodbye
| Keywords:
farewell
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