The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“human cruelty was to never be underestimated, always to be believed in,” — Brian Lee Durfee Copy Share Image
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I think my cruelty hides beneath the surface a lot more than Sue Sylvester's. — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
“He read the words, wondering when cruelty won the vote from democracy.” — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current... — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When my daughter Stefani - who most people know as Lady Gaga - was a child, she had to learn painful lessons… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
“Our society should not buy into the abusive man's claim that holding him accountable is an act of cruelty.” — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals,… — Louis J. Camuti Copy Share Image
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
“You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One result for many people is a tendency to think that power comes from cruelty or indifference. But, in reality such things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“There are people in this world whose central focus is to permeate cruelty with little regard for their own karmic penalties. Love… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“To hold her, to keep her -- just as she was -- with her cruelty, with her vulgarity, with her blinding blue… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“When they were only a few yards from the stone hull, Inej halted and watched the mists wreathing the branches. “He was… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is seldom forgotten. You feel it as a child. Somebody takes away your toy or thoughtlessly kicks over your sand castle.… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“They stared each other down again. And Lorcan knew that if he wanted, he could wait until she was asleep, take it… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.” — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
