Cruelty Quotes
There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.
He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.
I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.
Words can be as deadly as bullets. But bullets are faster acting. ~ Brandon Hull
In knowing "what's best" for our patients, we tyrannize them with our good intentions. Behind our benevolent persona, our ruthless shadow is letting out the clutch.
The only thing crueler than a cage sosmall that a bird can’t fly is a cage solarge that a bird thinks it can fly.
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.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
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.
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.
Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.
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 ...
All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form
Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.
