Cruelty Quotes
Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.
Cruelty had been his weapon. But such a tool is dangerous and can spread further than you intend.
Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!
Good people turn to love, courage and kindness in times of crisis, not hate, fear and cruelty.
He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.
Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?
Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?
Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.
He has seen enough of daily evil to be thankful for small goods that come his way.
The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.
How do evil people find the strength to do good?
Stop blaming evil on the Devil, blame it on the Creator of everything, if you don't understand, ask Him or at least hope that someday He will reveal it to you
Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.
To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.
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.
Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.
...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.
Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.
Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.
I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done
Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you’re doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don’t be both, because now you’ve made a mess you can’t clean up in a hurry.
The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.
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.
...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 ...
Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.
He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.
True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.
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.
Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell
The most savage of human kind are the most advanced
Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.
By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
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.
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.
A wife who obsesses on "fixing" her husband only succeeds in demeaning him.pg 48
What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?