Best 440 quotes in «cruelty quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

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 is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

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

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

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

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.

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

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

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

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

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

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

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.

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

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.

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

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

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