Moby Quotes

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

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

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.

To willfully harm another human being goes against everything I believe in.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

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

I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

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

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

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.

You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away

The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.

The first and most important thing a man should keep away from is not doing harm of any kind knowingly to anyone, at any time.