"Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we."

Rostand, Jean | Prejudice | 2 bookmarks

"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."

Anderson, Marian | Fear | 4 bookmarks

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."

Shaw, George Bernard | Indifference | 3 bookmarks

"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."

Kundera, Milan | Animals | 1 bookmarks

"What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate."

Mayhew, Dr Edward | Humankind | 1 bookmarks

"Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty."

Phaedrus | Tenderness | 1 bookmarks

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

Seneca | Weakness | 3 bookmarks

"It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on."

Unknown, Source | Fools and Foolishness | 3 bookmarks

"They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. "

Penn, William | Uncategorised | 1 bookmarks

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."

Nightingale, Earl | Attitude | 8 bookmarks