Speech at the 24th International Vegetarian Congress, India, 1977; quoted in The Vegetarians by Rynn Berry (Autumn Press, 1979), pp. 133-134.
“Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and charity, and decency in this world.”
Speech at McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, September 22, 2000. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/00_09_22mckay.htm.
2000
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“Sometimes doing the gods’ bidding required a hardened heart.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 4, “The Silent Child” (p. 145).

“The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them.”
Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 7

Speaking to Eugene Torre, Radio Interview, May 24 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_07_1.MP3
1990s

“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”

“Brother men who after us live on,
Harden not your hearts against us.”
Freres humains qui après nous vivez,
N'avez les cuers contre nous endurcis.
"L'Epitaphe Villon (Villon's Epitaph)", or "Ballade des Pendus (Ballade of the Hanged)", line 1. (1463).

"A Protest about the Condition of the Bohemians," p. 5
Wu Ming Presents Thomas Müntzer, Sermon to the Princes

epigraph, from title-page
Every Living Creature (1899)