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cruelties
«Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood / we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.»
«Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Fear
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And One, beginning, conquer, cruelties, cruelty, fear, in the main, main, source, sources, superstition, The Beginning, wisdom
«Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Habit
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cruelties, enchantments, prevents, second nature
«My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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antipathies, antipathy, based, based on, cruelties, cruelty, deepest, derived, deriving, disgusting, disgusts, hatred, instinctive, intellectual, murder, murdering, pacifism, possesses, theory
«Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
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Age,
Beauty,
Cruelty,
Culture,
Custom,
Education,
Strength,
Traditions,
Weakness
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accepts, beauties, cruelties, cultures, custom, human culture, it accepts, overlap, overlapping, patiently, Real Character, reduced, sufferings, tradition, Two Cultures
«My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, cruelties, hypocrisies, shoddy, vanities
«Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.»
«If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cruelty,
Destiny,
Freedom,
Slavery
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abused, cruelties, scorned, The opposition, Tho, tied, tied up
«It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Injustice
| Keywords:
crime, cruelties, cruelty, homosexuality, injustice, injustices, persecute, persecutes, persecuting