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Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

Charles A. Lindbergh

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Michel de Montaigne

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his heaven on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

Bertrand Russell

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

George Bernard Shaw

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Rabindranath Tagore

The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

Mark Twain

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Simone Weil

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Alexis Carrel

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Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

- Obafemi Awolowo

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Maya Angelou

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The most important thing is to enjoy your life-to be happy-it's all that matters.

- Audrey Hepburn

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