Best 440 quotes in «cruelty quotes» category

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.

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

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

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

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

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.