"I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live." - William Cowper

"All cruelty springs from weakness." - Seneca

"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men." - JACOB BRONOWSKI, The Face of Violence

"Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!"
- ROBERT BURNS, Man was Made to Mourn

"Scarcely anything awakens attention like a tale of cruelty. The writer of news never fails . . . to tell how the enemies murdered children and ravished virgins; and, if the scene of action be somewhat distant, scalps half the inhabitants of a province." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler

"Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims