Quotes about Cruelty

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. Votes: 6

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. Votes: 6

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Votes: 5

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. Votes: 4

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. Votes: 4

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell. Votes: 4

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. Votes: 4

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. Votes: 4

Cruelty is the only sin. Votes: 3

Truth without compassion is Cruelty. Votes: 3

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. Votes: 3

Cruelty is not a literary value. Votes: 3

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant. Votes: 3

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant. Votes: 3

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. Votes: 3

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal. Votes: 3

Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity. Votes: 3

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. Votes: 3

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears. Votes: 3

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles. Votes: 3

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. Votes: 3

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness. Votes: 3

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit. Votes: 3

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them. Votes: 3

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. Votes: 3

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain. Votes: 3

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain. Votes: 3

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin. Votes: 3

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. Votes: 3

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God. Votes: 3

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination, Votes: 3

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. Votes: 3

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention. Votes: 3

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world. Votes: 3

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart. Votes: 3

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. Votes: 3

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me Votes: 3

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination. Votes: 3

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. Votes: 3

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world. Votes: 3

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Votes: 3

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables. Votes: 3

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. Votes: 3

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion. Votes: 3

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. Votes: 3

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. Votes: 3

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. Votes: 3

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind. Votes: 3

Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever. Votes: 3

Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens. Votes: 3

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option. Votes: 3

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. Votes: 3

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. Votes: 3

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. Votes: 3

Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script. Votes: 3

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. Votes: 3

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. Votes: 3

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. Votes: 3

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit. Votes: 3

Have you any idea of what you've unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering"what other gifts did the gods bestow on him? Votes: 3

Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others. Votes: 3

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons. Votes: 3

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. Votes: 3

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn. Votes: 3

Cruelty towards animals and child abuse make me feel vulnerable. I wish there was more I could do. I try to spread positive messages through my social media. Votes: 3

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth. Votes: 3

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. Votes: 3

Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dreed. Votes: 3

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf. Votes: 3

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization. Votes: 3

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out. Votes: 3

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Votes: 3

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would. Votes: 3

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression. Votes: 3

Farewell, fair cruelty. Votes: 2

All cruelty springs from weakness. Votes: 2

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. Votes: 2

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. Votes: 2

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. Votes: 2

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. Votes: 2

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. Votes: 2

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. Votes: 2

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. Votes: 2

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. Votes: 2

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. Votes: 2

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. Votes: 2

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. Votes: 2

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. Votes: 2

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Votes: 2

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up. Votes: 2

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. Votes: 2

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. Votes: 2

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. Votes: 2

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. Votes: 2

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people. Votes: 2

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. Votes: 2

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. Votes: 2

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. Votes: 2

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. Votes: 2

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. Votes: 2

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. Votes: 2

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. Votes: 2

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. Votes: 2

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. Votes: 2

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children. Votes: 2

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. Votes: 2

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. Votes: 2

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. Votes: 2

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible. Votes: 2

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace. Votes: 2

Man is the cruelest animal. Votes: 1

Uko wapi ubinadamu wa watu? Votes: 1

All cruelty springs from weakness. Votes: 1

He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty. Votes: 1

There is no honor in cruelty. Votes: 1

You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty. Votes: 1

in every pleasure, cruelty has its place... Votes: 1

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly. Votes: 1

Only the degraded want to degrade others. Votes: 1

The cruelest countries have the most laws. Votes: 1

Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty. Votes: 1

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power. Votes: 1

We are cruel enough without meaning to be. Votes: 1

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind Votes: 1

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. Votes: 1

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness. Votes: 1

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education Votes: 1

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty. Votes: 1

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. Votes: 1

People who use snark attacks confuse cleverness with cruelty. Votes: 1

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy. Votes: 1

There is no redemption in a cruel man's love. Votes: 1

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are. Votes: 1

He who does nothing to stop evil condones it Votes: 1

The most savage of human kind are the most advanced Votes: 1

How do evil people find the strength to do good? Votes: 1

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began. Votes: 1

In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue Votes: 1

There is a certain beauty in our intrinsic human cruelty. Votes: 1

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change. Votes: 1

The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken. Votes: 1

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. Votes: 1

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. Votes: 1

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight. Votes: 1

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it. Votes: 1

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. Votes: 1

In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good. Votes: 1

Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell Votes: 1

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. Votes: 1

Instead of recognizing their mistakes, some people commit crimes to hide them Votes: 1

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them. Votes: 1

If you look for evil in people you will not have friends Votes: 1

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty. Votes: 1

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not. Votes: 1

Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart. Votes: 1

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless. Votes: 1

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal. Votes: 1

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage. Votes: 1

You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle. Votes: 1

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours. Votes: 1

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place. Votes: 1

A wife who obsesses on "fixing" her husband only succeeds in demeaning him.pg 48 Votes: 1

Words can be as deadly as bullets. But bullets are faster acting. ~ Brandon Hull Votes: 1

The important thing isn't what other people think you are; it's who you are. Votes: 1

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 - Votes: 1

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. Votes: 1

I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me. Votes: 1

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew. Votes: 1

Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly? Votes: 1

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools. Votes: 1

A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind. Votes: 1

...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others. Votes: 1

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. Votes: 1

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it. Votes: 1

True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it. Votes: 1

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. Votes: 1

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. Votes: 1

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another. Votes: 1

There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters. Votes: 1

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs. Votes: 1

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things? Votes: 1

Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. Votes: 1

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick Votes: 1

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? Votes: 1

He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house. Votes: 1

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. Votes: 1

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. Votes: 1

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is. Votes: 1

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out. Votes: 1

I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done Votes: 1

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless. Votes: 1

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance."(Done With Bonaparte) Votes: 1

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty. Votes: 1

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out. Votes: 1

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other. Votes: 1

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns. Votes: 1

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? Votes: 1

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life. Votes: 1

If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough. Votes: 1

He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel. Votes: 1

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed? Votes: 1

You don't need Satan to explain the evil in the world. He is not the creator of the universe Votes: 1

Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued. Votes: 1

Do not build a castle around one act of kindness; do not build an empire around one act of cruelty. Votes: 1

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? Votes: 1

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free. Votes: 1

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. Votes: 1

...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life. Votes: 1

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others. Votes: 1

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable. Votes: 1

All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form Votes: 1

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. Votes: 1

Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind. Votes: 1

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself. Votes: 1

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. Votes: 1

Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies. Votes: 1

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time. Votes: 1

Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times. Votes: 1

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. Votes: 1

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ... Votes: 1

Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap. Votes: 1

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it Votes: 1

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice. Votes: 1

My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people's misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries. Votes: 1

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. Votes: 1

Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific. Votes: 1

A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry. Votes: 1

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. Votes: 1

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie. Votes: 1

...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ... Votes: 1

Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use cruelty to push them away. Votes: 1

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. Votes: 1

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise. Votes: 1

You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love. Votes: 1

Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character. Votes: 1

The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of awareness to mark the boundary line. Votes: 1

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it. Votes: 1

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. Votes: 1

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on. Votes: 1

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs. Votes: 1

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children. Votes: 1

Torture when inflicted on childrenbecomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensiblepractice to extract information, the case for inflicting pain and abuse upon childrenproves impossible to support. Votes: 1

People talk sometimes of 'bestial' cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beast; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically, so artfully cruel. Votes: 1

Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together. Votes: 1

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty. Votes: 1

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite? Votes: 1

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'. Votes: 1

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others. Votes: 1

I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth. Votes: 1

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Votes: 1

And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with. Votes: 1

Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn't that always the way of things? The collective suffered for the actions of an inept, ineffectual leader. Votes: 1

It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut Votes: 1

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent. Votes: 1

All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet. Votes: 1

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. Votes: 1

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit. Votes: 1

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love. Votes: 1

I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me. Votes: 1

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. Votes: 1

Our world needs brutality and cruelty to sustain its equality and justice. Without it, handsome guys and beautiful ladies will fuck everyone they want. And we all ugly people will wait holding our dicks in our hands. Votes: 1

We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereotyped as less than capable, by an upside down world that thinks reality television is actually normal behavior. Votes: 1

When desire meets desire, the stronger one survives. Fulfill your desires! The predator will eat the prey. Our world is a cruel and dirty place...but that's what makes it so beautiful! Hell is the true paradise! Votes: 1

People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!! Votes: 1

No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath it all, we are not so different from what lurks in the wild, perhaps we're worse. Votes: 1

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one. Votes: 1

If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes of blood sucking predators. Votes: 1

Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. But I am convinced that he was not. Because even cowardice requires a certain degree of sensitivity, and a certain value for life. Votes: 1

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow than use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem. Votes: 1

Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure. Votes: 1

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem. Votes: 1

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. Votes: 1

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought. Votes: 1

Out there was a man who had murdered his daughter. And another who had stepped on her heart. His hatred should be aimed at the one who killed her, but all he could picture was Yoshino being literally kicked out of that car. Votes: 1

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other. Votes: 1

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid. Votes: 1

I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening to the wind in the palm trees outside our window, believing in our thick dreams that we are capable of nothing cruel. Votes: 1

It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected. Votes: 1

Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it. Votes: 1

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you? Votes: 1

Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake. Votes: 1

I rather spend every Sunday of my life hanging off a cliff to rescue someone than spend one more time sitting in a pew next to hypocrites that talk about what they will do to better themselves and the world when they get around to it. Votes: 1

She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had planned, she had begun to hate them. She hated them for making her feel so wretched, when she should be happiest. That happens sometimes. Votes: 1

It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes possible. Votes: 1

You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view. Votes: 1

They're making me go to school," Pram said. "I don't think it's a very good idea. I've read about how cruel kids can be.""Are you afraid they'll be cruel, or that being around them for too long will make you cruel?" Felix said."Both, I suppose. Votes: 1

There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world.""There goes the misguided soul with her heart buried in the ground."They taunt. They lie. They lie. THEY LIE.I don't pretend to understand life. THEY LIE. Votes: 1

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy."[Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience] Votes: 1

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past. Votes: 1

We live in a cruel world, Isabel," he says, without looking at me. "I am only a man, and will not always live up to your expectations. And to me, that is a painful reality. But we must never be cruel to one another. Let there be peace between us. Votes: 1

Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. Votes: 1

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain. Votes: 1

I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics. Votes: 1

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap Votes: 1

All just laws condemn cruelty. Votes: 0

All cruelty springs from weakness. Votes: 0

Fear is the parent of cruelty. Votes: 0

The secret of poetry is cruelty. Votes: 0

There is no beast without cruelty Votes: 0

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. Votes: 0

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty. Votes: 0

Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful. Votes: 0

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty. Votes: 0

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois Votes: 0

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Votes: 0

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty. Votes: 0

too great pity is the greatest cruelty. Votes: 0

Anything less than full justice is cruelty. Votes: 0

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later. Votes: 0

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring. Votes: 0

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest. Votes: 0

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses. Votes: 0

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity. Votes: 0

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty. Votes: 0

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination. Votes: 0

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. Votes: 0

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Votes: 0

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty. Votes: 0

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. Votes: 0

In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together. Votes: 0

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Votes: 0

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ? Votes: 0

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity. Votes: 0

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty. Votes: 0

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love. Votes: 0

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us? Votes: 0

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour. Votes: 0

There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty. Votes: 0

Anger cannot be destroyed by anger and cruelty by cruelty. Votes: 0

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy. Votes: 0

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty. Votes: 0

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause. Votes: 0

Win hatred with love, enemies with friendship, and cruelty with kindness. Votes: 0

Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty. Votes: 0

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness Votes: 0

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. Votes: 0

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice. Votes: 0

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity. Votes: 0

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals. Votes: 0

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women. Votes: 0

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so. Votes: 0

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form. Votes: 0

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty. Votes: 0

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. Votes: 0

It's not just about being against cruelty. It's about being for compassion. Votes: 0

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. Votes: 0

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel. Votes: 0

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. Votes: 0

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals Votes: 0

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. Votes: 0

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder. Votes: 0

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity. Votes: 0

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. Votes: 0

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. Votes: 0

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. Votes: 0

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. Votes: 0

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. Votes: 0

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. Votes: 0

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. Votes: 0

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. Votes: 0

She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it. Votes: 0

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed. Votes: 0

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. Votes: 0

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on Votes: 0

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity. Votes: 0

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin. Votes: 0

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living. Votes: 0

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current... Votes: 0

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? Votes: 0

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances. Votes: 0

He's ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader) Votes: 0

Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty Votes: 0

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too Votes: 0

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. Votes: 0

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. Votes: 0

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. Votes: 0

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. Votes: 0

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. Votes: 0

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. Votes: 0

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner Votes: 0

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall. Votes: 0

CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns. Votes: 0

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. Votes: 0

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together. Votes: 0

It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts. Votes: 0

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty. Votes: 0

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. Votes: 0

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution. Votes: 0

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. Votes: 0

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. Votes: 0

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice. Votes: 0

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough. Votes: 0

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it. Votes: 0

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty. Votes: 0

He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind. Votes: 0

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law Votes: 0

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle. Votes: 0

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. Votes: 0

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty. Votes: 0

She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him. Votes: 0

Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream. Votes: 0

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products. Votes: 0

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. Votes: 0

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. Votes: 0

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. Votes: 0

In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness. Votes: 0

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue" Votes: 0

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent. Votes: 0

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals. Votes: 0

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. Votes: 0

To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. Votes: 0

I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals. Votes: 0

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty. Votes: 0

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. Votes: 0

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of. Votes: 0

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. Votes: 0

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell Votes: 0

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. Votes: 0

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? Votes: 0

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. Votes: 0

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom. Votes: 0

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression. Votes: 0

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. Votes: 0

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty. Votes: 0

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul. Votes: 0

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. Votes: 0

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. Votes: 0

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty. Votes: 0

It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals. Votes: 0

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. Votes: 0

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness. Votes: 0

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy Votes: 0

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. Votes: 0

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity. Votes: 0

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance. Votes: 0

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty. Votes: 0

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. Votes: 0

Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick) Votes: 0

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. Votes: 0

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel. Votes: 0

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey! Votes: 0

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse. Votes: 0

If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares. Votes: 0

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage. Votes: 0

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. Votes: 0

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity. Votes: 0

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves. Votes: 0

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it. Votes: 0

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. Votes: 0

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. Votes: 0

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect. Votes: 0

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us. Votes: 0

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability. Votes: 0

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. Votes: 0

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. Votes: 0

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. Votes: 0

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder. Votes: 0

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. Votes: 0

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty Votes: 0

Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away Votes: 0

If those in power were smart or kind then there would not be any unnecessary animal cruelty in our world. If. Votes: 0

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it. Votes: 0

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. Votes: 0

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred. Votes: 0

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq. Votes: 0

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty. Votes: 0

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! Votes: 0

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men's souls which is only released when they have other men in their power. Votes: 0

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood. Votes: 0

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. Votes: 0

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity. Votes: 0

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty. Votes: 0

The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires. Votes: 0

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice. Votes: 0

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. Votes: 0

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me. Votes: 0

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis. Votes: 0

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices. Votes: 0

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life. Votes: 0

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them. Votes: 0

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared. Votes: 0

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins. Votes: 0

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. Votes: 0

It's terrible because people see stars like JLo and Beyoncé wearing fur and they don't think about the cruelty that goes into it. Votes: 0

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence. Votes: 0

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. Votes: 0

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color. Votes: 0

I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff. Votes: 0

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered. Votes: 0

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty. Votes: 0

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light. Votes: 0

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty. Votes: 0

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. Votes: 0

I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury. Votes: 0

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die. Votes: 0

I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all. Votes: 0

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity. Votes: 0

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world. Votes: 0

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty. Votes: 0