“In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.”
Erich Fromm
“All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness”
Seneca
“The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self-love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.”
Edward Bach
“A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the sense, of the joy of the senses, of joy in general is Christian.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.”
“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.
“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
