Best 440 quotes in «cruelty quotes» category

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

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.

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

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

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

Misfortune is no excuse for 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.

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

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 animal experimentation is useless.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

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

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

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 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.

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

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.

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

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

Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.