“Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.”
Phaedrus
“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.
“All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness”
Seneca
“Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness”
Ingrid Holtby
“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”
Bertrand Russell
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.”
Andrea Dworkin
