Rachel Cusk Quotes

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

This ban on interracial dating is stupid, it’s idiotic, and it is incredibly cruel.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

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.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Justice is horrible.

Discrimination is a disease.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.