Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as ‘sentimental’, ‘impractical’, or ‘womanish’, etc., by those whose fun, profit or convenience was at stake. (Joan Gilbert)
Mankind continues to become gradually less cruel because a few people in every generation keep saying, “This isn’t right. It hurts me to see it.” (Joan Gilbert)
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that in all things good, gain is harder and slower than loss; but in all things bad or evil, getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of them. (Hare & Charles)