“Man is the cruelest animal.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it”
Mark Twain
“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“a haunting reminder to all mankind of man's inexplicable cruelty towards his fellow man.”
King Hussein
“All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness”
Seneca
“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim”
Alphonse de Lamartine
“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
