Cruelty Quotes
...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.
There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it.
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.
Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?
Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.
In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.
We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.
He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel.
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.
Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.
In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face. We don’t see them as people.
Eastward and westward storms are breaking, --great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.
It’s comforting to me, ” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.
So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence.
It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.
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.
Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.
Why don't people get their children stuffed after they pass away. Why not, I mean you do love them right?
In a country where even humans are treated brutally, animals must be in a totally desperate condition!
I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.
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.
Man is the only predator who hunts his own.
An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.
I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.
Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!
However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.
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.
Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.
Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.
No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!
If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.
If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.
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.
I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.
Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.
Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not.
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.
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.--Blanche Dubois
When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they’re obviously missing something from their lives.
Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn’t.
Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.
When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.
