Best 440 quotes in «cruelty quotes» category

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

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.

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

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

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

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

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

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

Most animal experimentation is useless.

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

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

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.

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

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

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.