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"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other."
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"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."
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"The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol."
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"Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence."
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"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other."
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"I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."
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"Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?"
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"So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence."
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"Farewell, fair cruelty."
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"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty."
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"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
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"The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role."
Creativity
"Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?"
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"As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day."
People
"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals."
Change
"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."
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"If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart."
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"The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint."
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"In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life."
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"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other."
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"My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms."
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