Quotes of Ferocity - somelinesforyou

“ In wildness is the preservation of the world. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ We must be prepared for more violence. ”

- George W. Bush

“ An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more, The reign of violence is o'er! ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ See what a rent the envious Casca made. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Cruelty is the only sin. ”

- Ellen Glasgow

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. ”

- Paul Tillich

“ I don't believe this is going to cause any more violence in the inner city. ”

- Larry Elder

“ Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Indifference is the essence of inhumanity. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ OUR country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. ”

- Ida B. Wells

“ Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. ”

- Jodie Foster

“ So much violence in the world seems beyond our control, but this is one cruelty we can stop by being informed consumers. ”

- Martha Stewart

“ Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The violence between women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. ”

- Tori Amos

“ In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Nothing good ever comes of violence. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Fear is the parent of cruelty. ”

- James A. Froude

“ Fear is the parent of both courage and of cowardice. Which child will you choose to raise? ”

- Joe Tye

“ Farewell, fair cruelty. ”

- William Shakespeare
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