You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty. — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.” — Silje Akselberg Iversen Copy Share Image
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Cruelty is a waste of precious time and energy but kindness is an investment which pays endless dividends. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
“There is enough cruelty in the world," she told me softly, "to justify all the music ever made.” — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance. And yet we suffer,… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion. He was an old lion, prepared from… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am always struck by how difficult it is for people to see how much cruelty they are bringing not only upon… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
“Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!” — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
