Cruelty Quotes · Page 12

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

— Ludovico Ariosto

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

— Morarji Desai

“That was the cruelty of memory. The way it could ambush you.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

— Samuel Johnson

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

— Alexis Carrel

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

— George Bernard Shaw

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

— Rachel Carson

There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.

— Baron Stratford Tony Banks

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

— Victor Hugo

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

— Nalini Singh

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

— Mark Ruffalo

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the…

— Joyce Cary

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

— William Shakespeare

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

— River Phoenix

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind…

— Veronica Roth

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

— David Hume

“Animal abuse should be taken seriously not just because of our concern for humans. Lax enforcement of animal-cruelty laws leads to untold…

— Clif Flynn

“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of…

— Iris Chang

Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a…

— Antonin Artaud

“We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for…

— Douglas Clegg

The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all…

— Terry Jones

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Torture when inflicted on children becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible practice to extract information, the…

— Henry A. Giroux

A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be…

— Malala Yousafzai

“Silence!” Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. “You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.” The historian faced him. “I am.” “You are…

— Steven Erikson

As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not…

— Rajneesh

This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the…

— Mira Grant

“Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip…

— Charles Dickens

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,…

— Eric Hoffer

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

— Morarji Desai

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

— Tennessee Williams

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Truman Capote

The only thing that really depresses me is animal cruelty.

— Ricky Gervais

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

— Walter Scott

“If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.”

— Rachel L. Demeter

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

— Catherynne M. Valente