Cruelty Quotes

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?

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.

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.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

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

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.

Truth without compassion is Cruelty.

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.

The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.