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Alexander Hume
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
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Anatole France
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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Edward Young
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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George Eliot
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
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Louis XIII
I would love to see the grimace he Marquis de Cinq-Mars is now making on the scaffold. Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.
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Mark Twain
When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
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Robert Burns
Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
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Robert Burns
It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.
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Robinson Jeffers
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
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Samuel Johnson
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
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Seneca
All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
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Thomas Hood
It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.
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William Cowper
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
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