Cruelty Quotes

Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets its match here.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.