Thiruvalluvar Quotes

Humans are not really very humane.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Cruelty is the only sin.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? Exactly the same as we behaved against the Jews, we now wish to do against all other people who are in our way, to smash, crush - yes, even exterminate.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.

I don't like how cruel humans can be.