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    Mark Twain
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    Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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    Juvenal
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    Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. (for contrast).

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 2:14-15, Deuteronomy 32:4, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 30:18, Romans 3:23-28
    My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line....

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    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.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    The desire for harming, the cruelty of revenge, the restless and implacable mind, the savageness of revolting, the lust for dominating, and similar things – these are what are justly blamed in wars. O...

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    William Penn
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    They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

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    William Wood Seymour
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    According to tradition, [during the crucifixion] our Lord’s back was turned toward Jerusalem, which was in the east and his face toward the west. This may have been a refinement of cruelty on the part...

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    Francis A. Schaeffer
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    People today are trying to hang on to the dignity of man, but they do not know how to, because they have lost the truth that man is made in the image of God. . . . We are watching our culture put into...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was strong...

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    David McCullough
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    Micah 6:8, Revelation 6:4, Romans 3:10-12, Matthew 23:27, Isaiah 5:20
    History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should rea...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Hebrews 12:11, 1 Corinthians 5:12, Ezekiel 3:18, Proverbs 27:5-6, Matthew 18:15, Galatians 6:1
    Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin.

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    John Calvin
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    Away, then, with that inhuman philosophy which, while conceding only a necessary use of creatures, not only malignantly deprives us of the lawful fruit of God’s beneficence but cannot be practiced unl...

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    Joel Green
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    Executed publicly, situated at a major crossroads or on a well-trafficked artery, devoid of clothing, left to be eaten by birds and beasts, victims of crucifixion were subject to optimal, unmitigated,...

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    David Hume
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    Of all the crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude, especially when it is committed against parents, and appears in the most flagrant instan...

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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end... but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature ... And to...

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    Richard Dawkins
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    The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. . . . In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt,...

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    William James
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    No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed by all the members thereof. If no o...

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    Wendell Berry
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    Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if...

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    Charlotte Brontë
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    “Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!”

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    Fleming Rutledge
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    The Roman world was largely unanimous that crucifixion was a horrific, disgusting business.. . . The relative scarcity of references to crucifixions in antiquity. . . are [sic] less a historical probl...

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    John Arnold
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    We are too anxious to be able to wait for fruit and time to ripen, so we take the shortcuts of robbery and violence, even the torture of little children; sin leads to crimes against both nature and ou...

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    Warren W. Wiersbe
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    Galatians 6:1, John 4:1-26, 2 Samuel 12:1-14, Proverbs 3:3-4, John 1:14, 1 Corinthians 13:6
    Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

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    Warren W. Wiersbe
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    Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

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    Alexander MacLaren
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    Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-r...

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
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    When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

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    Jack London
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    A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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    Samuel Chadwick
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    Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."

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    George Orwell
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    All Animals are Equal. But Some Animals are More Equal Than Others

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    Francis A. Schaeffer
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    Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
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