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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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