Ill Treatment Quotes:

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Self, Ill Treatment, Profound

The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world are violated by ill treatment, so God will cleanse them thru the sufferings, thru the hardships of mankind.

- Hildegard of Bingen

topic: Ill Treatment, Suffering, Elements

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

- Immanuel Kant

source: "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

topic: Heart, Men, Animal, Man And Dog, Inspirational Animal

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.

- Immanuel Kant

source: Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

topic: Heart, Men, Animal, Kindness To Animals, Dealings

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

- Georgette Heyer

topic: Gratitude, Feelings, Tears, Vapour, Ill Treatment

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

- Plutarch

topic: Encouragement, Children, Mean, Ill Treatment

Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.

- Alexander Masters

source: Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

topic: Fall, Fighting, Mushrooms, Chainsaw, Roadside

...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such a way as to hold open the possibility of the enemy's becoming just as well. Both sides must win. We are summoned to pray for our enemies' transformation, and to respond to ill-treatment with a love that not only is godly but also, I am convinced, can only be found in God.

- Walter Wink

topic: Jesus, Mean, Godly, Outwitting, Ill Treatment

(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Strong, Buddhist, Real, Brahmins, Ill Treatment

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed, were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees.

- Rudolf Hoss

topic: Men, Hands, People, Deputies, Detention