530 Quotes About Cruelty

Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit. Do you get what I mean? It is like some frend who preveusly was nise suden lee says some crool thing and does this nip on your flank. Even when he goes bak to being nise, you will never feel exact lee safe. And meenwile your other frends, who did not get nipped, are troting arownd with hapy smiles, going: Fox 8, why so glum?

I believe we all experience cruelty at some point in our lives. Regardless of how abhorrent our previously suffered cruelties were, nothing seems as devastating as the cruelty of the present.

The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

Some animals would be offended if they were treated like some people.

Look beyond your tasseled capsAnd you will see injustice.At the end of your fingertipsYou will find cruelties,Irrational hate, bedrock sorrowAnd terrifying loneliness.There is your work.

I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.