Cruelty Quotes · Page 15

“Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.”

— Nenia Campbell

“Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.”

— Arundhati Roy

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“A craftsman must probe to the very bottom of cruelty.”

— Zbigniew Herbert

“A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

— Anonymous

Only the weak exploit others and cruelty is born from one's weakness.

— Anonymous

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.”

— Doreen Orion

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

— Albert Schweitzer

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all…

— Marquis de Sade

“That cruelty is part of nature is the little lie. That cruelty is part of human nature is the big one.”

— Tom Fahy

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

— Cassia Leo

“Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you’re doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don’t be both, because now you’ve made…

— Ursula Vernon

What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words…

— Glen Duncan

I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there…

— Anonymous

There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and…

— George Clooney

“Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be…

— L.H. Cosway

“...when the createdness of the other person is not viewed as necessary as our own—then there is no reason (beyond expediency) to…

— Sydney J. Harris

Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals…

— Brigitte Bardot

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

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or…

— Ben H. Winters

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.…

— C. S. Lewis

“Our historical pastime is the direct satisfaction of inflicting pain. There are lines in Nekrassov describing how a peasant lashes a horse…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom…

— Walter Raleigh

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances,…

— Samuel Johnson

This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to…

— Cornelia Funke

Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger,…

— John Marsden

We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.

— Ephraim Mirvis

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

— Veronica Roth

“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. - On Religion ”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

— Martin Amis

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

— Jacqueline Carey

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

— Baron de Montesquieu

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson