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Letter "C" » cruelty
«My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt»
Author: Anna Sewell
(Novelist)
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Cruelty
| Keywords:
cruelty, do-nothing, doctrine, guilt, sharer, sharers
«Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to -- or can't -- join the Big Parade.»
«Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling»
Author: Felix Frankfurter
(Jurist)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
cruelty, fragile, institutionalize, institutionalized, medium, unbridled, undisciplined
«Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.»
«Fear is the parent of cruelty.»
«Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.»
«In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.»
«In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty»
«Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.»
«It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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Injustice
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crime, cruelties, cruelty, homosexuality, injustice, injustices, persecute, persecutes, persecuting
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