Cruelty Quotes

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— Vino

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

— Frank Herbert

Truth without love is cruelty.

— Anonymous

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

— St. Catherine of Siena

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

— William Penn

All just laws condemn cruelty.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Cruelties should be committed all at once.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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

— Ingrid Newkirk

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

— Sigmund Freud

A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself. - Proverbs 11:17

— Bible

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

— Anonymous

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

— Rick Yancey

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

— Jane Smiley

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

— Peter Baynham

A little kindness goes long way but the sad thing is that a little cruelty goes further...

— Anonymous

“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to…

— Leo Tolstoy

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are…

— Eula Biss

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

— Marie Stopes

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be…

— Michael J. Sullivan

Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the…

— Max Heindel

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation,…

— Storm Jameson

Oh, you think you're so cool. Going around and acting very cruel. You know what? While you've been hurting people who you…

— Anonymous

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…

— Thomas Paine

“Gaia spoke in a complex language of predator and prey, of growth and dormancy, of birth and migration, of seasonal change, of…

— Linda Nagata

Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she…

— Veronica Roth

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after…

— Adam Rapp

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are…

— Michael Ignatieff

We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other…

— Philip Roth

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often…

— Gail Dines

How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve…

— Thomas Hardy

“Don't kill me,' said the knight. 'I yield. I yield. You can't kill a man at mercy.' Lancelot put up his sword…

— T.H. White

“Afterwards, sitting on my bunk, I cried. I read somewhere that when you’re a kid it’s people’s cruelty that makes you cry,…

— Glen Duncan

The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,…

— Thomas Paine

I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its…

— Jean Rhys

It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet…

— Robert Kennedy

My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three…

— Gary Yourofsky