Sentences with phrase «from human cruelty»

She said of that time, «When I was 12 in 1942, one could only escape from human cruelty inside oneself (into a world of dreams, imaginings)».

That their suffering results from human cruelty more than natural mishap makes it all the more horrible.

Not exact matches

Until that is expelled from our culture there will be a root, a tap root, for all racism, all discrimination, all cruelty, because of the nature of the human being in our culture.

It is the same Revelation that the OT narrative of Abraham, who was not yet evolved enough to grasp the FULL Revelation, «I desire mercy not sacrifice,» got when God stayed his hand from human sacrifice: the cycle of pain and cruelty stops here!

But cruelty to animals is morally different from human predation on animals — eating animals» flesh and using their hides and other parts for clothing, food or shelter.

(He insisted that human society is from but not of the animal world, with its competition and cruelty.)

Who better than he knew what base things can come from the black depths of the human heart, dealing as he did with extortioners and prostitutes, the cruelty of the strong and the bigotry of the religious, and feeling over all the tyranny of a vast military empire?

«But though by the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions,» he writes, «though they would have been glad to stop, some incomprehensible, mysterious power still went on governing them, and the artillery men, covered with powder and blood, reduced to one in three, though stumbling and gasping from fatigue, kept bringing charges, loaded, aimed, applied the slow match; and the cannonballs, with the same speed and cruelty, flew from both sides and crushed human bodies flat, and the terrible thing continued to be accomplished, which was accomplished not by the will of men, but by the will of Him who governs people and worlds.»

From the living timber of stark, impenetrable nature comes the raw wood of human cruelty and the burning seats of our religious hopes.

In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

[37] In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

Only our human kind derives erotic pleasure from its savagery, becoming virtual voluptuaries of cruelty.

Well, the truth is, the cow industry is inhumane, (the overcrowded transportation conditions alone lead to to great suffering, severe cruelty and broken limbs), unhealthy (cows are pumped full of hormones, adrenalin from the fear from when they know they will be killed and anti-biotics — because the unhealthy conditions they live in promote infection and disease) and inefficient (cows must be fed 3 times the edible human grain than their bodies produce in meat).

«Students don't want to support an industry that slaughters nearly 2 million animals every hour, devastates the environment, and contributes to human disease, and schools are responding by rapidly increasing their cruelty - free options, from vegan ravioli to nondairy chocolate mousse.»

Perhaps learning from the excesses of Happy Feet, the creative minds behind this film make every effort to keep the action and tone light and frothy, even when dealing with such serious issues as bee cruelty and the potential end of human civilization without the important floral pollination process that bees provide.

Each dissects a makeshift society that's set apart from the rest of civilization, and that crumbles due to the cruelty inherent in human nature.

Meirelles, to his credit, does not shy away from the depths of human cruelty this story warrants.

Lost in and separated from all this is Mel Gibson's powerful statement of faith, the potential cruelty of man, and the human drive to survive physical and psychological torture in the name of a greater good.

Vaclav Smil takes his usual clear - eyed view of the whole landscape, from meat's role in human evolution to hard questions about animal cruelty.

The anti-tethering law prevents dogs from being kept outside where they may be able to break free and (cause cruelty to humans?

Greater awareness about the cruelty involved and the very real risks to human health from diseases such as cholera and rabies will eventually extinguish the industry.

No longer is it acceptable to just work to keep humans safe from animals (which is important), but it is equally important to keep animals safe from people — including cruelty and neglect, but also including safety from law enforcement officials — and that brutal force should only be used as a last resort.

Let's hope that Clarissa and the other horses manage to recover from their ordeal... and that they will never have to endure neglect or cruelty at human hands again.

Those in favor of horse slaughter have insisted horse slaughter should resume because they claim U.S. humane laws protect horses from cruelty, unlike Mexico and Canada where American horses are now sent to be slaughtered for human consumption in France, Belgium and some other countries.

Several attempts to increase protection for animals in Ohio have failed in recent legislative sessions because they raised penalties for animal cruelty to a level equal to or above penalties for domestic violence against humans, shifted the burden of proof from the government to the accused animal owner, failed to provide for humane agent training, and did not exempt traditional and humane animal husbandry practices from the definition of cruelty.

• Cars • Motorcycles • Bicycles • Attacks from other animals • Possible human cruelty • Poisons, traps • Feline - specific diseases • Zoonotic diseases

«It is argued that through the process of social learning theory (a theoretical framework in which criminal behaviour is learned) that some offenders will gain positive stimuli from engaging in animal cruelty which may lead to aggression towards humans — this is known as the «graduation hypothesis».

Reducing consumption of factory farmed animal products can be an efficient strategy to improve human health, protect the environment, and spare farm animals from cruelty.