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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread cruelty & imagination - HELP! #85031 10/28/2002 4:58 PM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada I'm trying to write an op/ed piece for the local paper and I want to use that quote (I may be getting it slightly wrong) - something about, "Cruelty is a failure of imagination." Does anyone know the exact quote, and who said it? I've googled cruelty + imagination + quote and got a quote site, but though it had good stuff on "imagination" it had nothing on "cruelty" - hence didn't have the quote I seek. And I started with my Oxford UP Dic of Quotes - no luck there either. Help help! Please Help! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cruelty & imagination - HELP! #85032 10/28/2002 5:58 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.--Margaret Atwood Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cruelty & imagination - HELP! #85033 10/28/2002 6:33 PM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada Thanks tsuwm - that is also good - but it still ain't quite right. The quote I'm thinking of actually defines "cruelty" as "a failure of [the] imagination." I've looked and looked and still no luck....Think I will just say, "A wise person" and then paraphrase! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cruelty #85034 10/28/2002 6:41 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont mg, see my post in your other post about cross-posting. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cruelty & imagination - HELP! #85035 10/28/2002 6:49 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass we have a scoop: oppression ain't cruel! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cruelty & imagination - HELP! #85036 10/29/2002 1:05 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England FishonaBike veteran FishonaBike veteran Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England Fantastic quote from Atwood, nunc. Tell you what, MG - if it ain't your quote, I'm blown away. How can that be beaten? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cruelty & imagination - HELP! #85037 10/30/2002 9:13 PM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada Hey Shona - 'Tis a wonderful quote, 'tis, but the thrust of it is more to do with oppression - so it didn't fit in with what I was composing (which had to do with killing/beating people - only two ways to oppress people, and there are so many more). I wanted to address cruelty specifically, so a quote having to do with oppression was a bit too general. Urgh - am not explaining myself very well. Anyway: my apologies for cross-threading/posting, and also for not seeming enthusiastic enough about what tsuwm found for me, which I liked very much indeed. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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