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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English
Writer
Born:
May 29
,
1874
Died:
Jun 14
,
1936
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Cruelty
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Kid
,
Worst
,
Worst Kind
,
Kind
,
Sin
,
Perhaps
,
Intellectual
,
Certainly
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Silence
People
Oppression
Bad People
Good People
Cruelty
Bad
Over
Ultimate
Tragedy
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
Anne Frank
Day
Change
Peace
Suffering
World
Better
Sky
Approaching
Will
Cruelty
Too
Everything
Wilderness
Once
Once More
One Day
Destroy
See
Slowly
Somehow
More
Shall
Thunder
Feel
Look
Return
Hear
End
Up
Tranquility
Being
Transformed
Us
Millions
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
Henry Rollins
Ignorance
Racism
Desperation
Will
Cruelty
Society
Weakness
Brutality
Foot
Nailed
Ground
Chained
Keep
Floor
Things
Brings
In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.
John McCain
Justice
Rights
Dignity
Corruption
Reality
People
Oppression
World
Liberty
Opportunity
Hatred
Cruelty
Longing
Human Rights
Demand
Real
Real People
Human
Experienced
The Real World
Real World
Lived
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.
Willie Nelson
You
Ignorance
Hurt
Cruelty
Whatever
Back
Out
All-Out
More
Knew
Forceful
Because
Than
Send
Anybody
Store
Much
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Wisdom
Fear
Cruelty
Beginning
Superstition
Main
Main Source
Source
Sources
Conquer
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh Sherman
War
Will
Cruelty
Sooner
Over
Reform
Trying
Use
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot
Opportunity
Cruelty
Every
Other
Only
Outside
Like
Motive
Itself
Vice
Requires
The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
Sukarno
Human Being
Cruelty
Isolation
Worst
Human
Inflicted
Being
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
Paul Tillich
Cruelty
Others
Ourselves
Towards
Also
Always
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