In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
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.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.