Best 440 quotes in «cruelty quotes» category

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

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 believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

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.

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

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

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

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

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

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

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

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

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.

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

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.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

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

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.

Most animal experimentation is useless.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

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

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

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.

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

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

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

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

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

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.

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.