Pastoral Resources

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial.' For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.