Cruelty Quotes

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.

Man is the cruelest animal.

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

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

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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.

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

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

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

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.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

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

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

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

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.

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

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

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

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

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

All cruelty springs from weakness.

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.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

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

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.

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

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

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

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

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

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

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

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

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

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

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

In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

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

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

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.

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

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.