Le Livre d'Éon (1978)
Citations sur cruauté
Une collection de citations sur le thème de cruauté, pluie, tout, bien-être.
Citations sur cruauté
Millions of Jewish or Arab children are, for the sake of dogma, subjected to circumcision, as infants or at an advanced age. Such cruelty is only possible with the total denial of the child's sensibility. But who can seriously say today that a child does not feel? In India, millions of girls have been raped as brides and this in the name of the religiously sanctioned doctrine of marriage. Countless initiation rites, condoned by religion, are nothing more than the sadistic mistreatment of children
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Articles et interviews

Syllogismes de l'amertume, 1952
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À propos de la traite négrière arabo-musulmane .
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Videte quid commendamus, quia non discernuntur facta hominum, nisi de radice caritatis. Nam multa fieri possunt quæ speciem habent bonam, et non procedunt de radice caritatis. Habent enim et spinæ flores: quæedam vero videntur aspera, videntur truculenta; sed fiunt ad disciplinam dictante caritate. Semel ergo breve præceptum tibi præcipitur: Dilige, et quod vis fac: sive taceas, dilectione taceas; sive clames, dilectione clames; sive emendes, dilectione emendes; sive parcas, dilectione parcas: radix sit intus dilectionis, non potest de ista radice nisi bonum existere.
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Citations de saint Augustin, Traités sur l'épitre de Saint-Jean aux Parthes


“Vous avez la cruauté des enfants, vous ne prêtez pas de valeur à la vie.”
Rompre le charme (2012)

For people like us it is necessary to be a bit stronger, more self-critical, more observant than the usual run. Whether we happen to come already enhanced with these qualities, as some have claimed, or whether our situation invests them in us, we have traditionally - and we do have a long and proud tradition - been a little finer, a little firmer, more sensitive and flexible than others […] The easiest armor to put on is always cruelty. That armor will, indeed, see you through everything. Vicious condescension toward those without your strength can make you feel momentarily superior. But that easy armor must be forgone. […] Never, Ralph, never for an instant permit yourself to feel anything other than pity and deepest sympathy for unfortunate comrades who have, after all, fallen in the same battle.
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace. But you cannot have peace and a division of our country. If the United States submits to a division now, it will not stop, but will go on until we reap the fate of Mexico, which is eternal war.[...] I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect and early success. But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for anything. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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Sur la colonisation de l'Algérie
Nouvelle géographie universelle: la terre et les hommes, 1881

Discours, Second discours sur le jugement de Louis XVI, prononcé à la Convention nationale le 26 décembre 1792
Scènes de la vie d'un jeune garçon , 1997

“La terreur est génératrice de cruauté.”
, 1956
Le Suicide et le Chant

Manifeste, Note en marge du jeu de la vérité, 1934

“La cruauté fait partie du cinéma, elle en est même fondatrice.”
De Tim Burton

The Complete Essays

Maldoror = Les Chants de Maldoror, together with a translation of Lautréamont's Poésies

Maldoror = Les Chants de Maldoror, together with a translation of Lautréamont's Poésies

The Complete Essays

“Sans un élément de cruauté à la base de tout spectacle, le théâtre n'est pas possible.”
The Theater and Its Double

Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order

“J'aime la folle cruauté des chimères qu'on apprivoise.”

“La cruauté de l'homme est beaucoup plus grave parce qu'elle est volontaire et cultivée”
Cruauté