"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."

Rostand, Jean on prejudice
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"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."

Anderson, Marian on fear
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"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."

Shaw, George Bernard on indifference
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"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."

Kundera, Milan on animals
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"What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate."

Mayhew, Dr Edward on humankind   

"Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty."

Phaedrus on tenderness   

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

Seneca on weakness
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"It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on."

Unknown, Source on fools and foolishness
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"They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. "

Penn, William on uncategorised   

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."

Nightingale, Earl on attitude
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"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

Russell, Bertrand on fear   

"Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact."

Dworkin, Andrea on judaism and jews   

"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."

Hoffer, Eric on manners
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"No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute."

Gallico, Paul on insults
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"Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life."

Hays, Ed on words   

"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."

Willkie, Wendell L. on manners   

"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"Don't complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!"

Unknown, Source on complaints and complaining
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"Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished."

Bible on poverty and the poor
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"The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal."

Goldsmith, Oliver on doctors   

"And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew."

Goldsmith, Oliver on intelligence and intellectuals   

"The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter."

Goldsmith, Oliver on laughter   

"There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it."

Goldsmith, Oliver on argument
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"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

Goldsmith, Oliver on manners   

"A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home."

Goldsmith, Oliver on manners   

"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."

Goldsmith, Oliver on modesty   

"Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom."

Goldsmith, Oliver on counsel   

"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."

Goldsmith, Oliver on criticism   

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

Churchill, Winston on lies and lying
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again."

Goldsmith, Oliver on discretion