Cruelty Quotes
Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)
It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.
She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about
Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.
Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.
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.
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.
People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
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.
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.
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.
Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
