Best 440 quotes in «cruelty quotes» category

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

Why don't people get their children stuffed after they pass away. Why not, I mean you do love them right?

Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day. The old old story. Boys and girls fall in love, that is, they are driven mad and go blind and deaf and see each other not as human animals with comic noses and bandy legs and voices like frogs, but as angels so full of shining goodness that like hollow turnips with candles put into them, they seem miracles of beauty. And the next minute the candles shoot out sparks and burn their eyes. And they seem to each other like devils, full of spite and cruelty. And they will drive each other mad unless they have grown some imagination. Even enough to laugh.

Why was she always so cruel, I wondered, even after I had worked so hard for her? Perhaps she needed someone beneath her to know for certain that she was not on the bottom rung. Perhaps being cruel was proof of her success.

Wickedness is witchcraft.

Wielkie okrucieństwo nie usprawiedliwia wszakże i nie unieważnia mniejszego.

With the utmost love as our motivation, we somethings think we are doing what is best for our children by protecting them from unpleasantness or cruelty. All we are really doing is shielding ourselves from owning up to misfortune or bad judgment.

Words can be as deadly as bullets. But bullets are faster acting. ~ Brandon Hull

Years from now we might be saying it's hyperbolic to compare someone to Donald Trump, because we will be quite sure no one could be that cruel.

You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.

You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view.

You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty boxes of chocolates. The cruel part - watching two guys hitting each other, maybe hurting each other, while they're safe in the bleachers. That's why it works, Carter, because we're all bastards.

You want to know what I'm afraid of? All right, I'll tell you. I'm afraid of men - yes, I'm very much afraid of men. And I'm even more afraid of women. And I'm very much afraid of the whole bloody human race. Afraid of them? Of course I'm afraid of them. Who wouldn't be afraid of a pack of damned hyenas? [...] And when I say afraid - that's just a word I use. What I really mean is that I hate them. I hate their voices, I hate their eyes, I hate the way they laugh. I hate the whole bloody business. It's cruel, it's idiotic, it's unspeakably horrible. I never had the guts to kill myself or I'd have got out of it long ago.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Cruelties should be committed all at once.

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

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

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

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

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

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