Cruelty Quotes

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

Cruelty towards animals and child abuse make me feel vulnerable. I wish there was more I could do. I try to spread positive messages through my social media.

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.

It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart of a wild beast, can believe in eternal punishment.

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

A good thing can't be cruel.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.