Best 440 quotes in «cruelty quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

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.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

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!

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

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

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

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

Most animal experimentation is useless.

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.

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

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

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

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

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)

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

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

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

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 only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

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.

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.

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

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

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

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

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