Violence And Cruelty Quotes:

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Life, Peace, Honesty, Animal Cruelty, Non Violence

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Animal, Savages, Stills, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

- John Adams

source: Letter from John Adams to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814

topic: Suicide, Freedom, Suicidal, Collectivism, Suitable

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

- Anne Holm

source: Anne Holm (1965). “North to freedom”

topic: Stupid, Blow, Hands, Stupid Person, Violence And Cruelty

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

topic: Running, Long, Greed, Violence And Cruelty

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

- Simon Schama

topic: War, Gone, Violence, Understated, Violence And Cruelty

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

- Clare Short

topic: Thinking, Iraq, Suffering, Violence And Cruelty, Guantanamo

Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being

- Sima Qian

topic: Spring, Military, War, Military Weapons, Violence And Cruelty

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.

- Storm Jameson

topic: Disease, Violence, Novelists, Evacuation, Violence And Cruelty