Cruelty Quotes · Page 16

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

— Robert A. Heinlein

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

— Maggie Stiefvater

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

— Samuel Johnson

“Our lives, reduced to mere hours, minutes, seconds, how cruel.”

— Ryan Gelpke

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

— Anonymous

“I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Christ traded the comfort of the manger for the cruelty of the Cross.

— Anonymous

I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.

— Brent Spiner

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

— Cheri Huber

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

— Anonymous

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

— Pete Waterman

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

— John Cowper Powys

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise…

— Jung Chang

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

— Maggie Nelson

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend…

— John Boyne

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less…

— P. J. O'Rourke

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just…

— C. S. Lewis

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we…

— Rachel Carson

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,…

— Walter Raleigh

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render…

— Josiah Warren

It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and…

— Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish

“Cruelty shouldn't be met with more cruelty; the cycle of violence must end. Yet, survival often demands a fight, and sometimes there's…

— David Omrai

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men…

— Lucy Parsons

When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great…

— Katha Pollitt

In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences…

— Roger Williams

“There is nothing wrong with where we are, how we are. You spit on satisfaction, leaving you always unsettled and miserable. I…

— Steven Erikson

Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation…

— Terry Goodkind

It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its…

— Anonymous

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on…

— Anne Frank

“Cruelty. Not only the willful causing of unnecessary suffering, but the indifference to it. It's much easier to be cruel than one…

— jonathon safran foer

A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves…

— Edmund Burke

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind

— Margaret Oliphant

“Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Cruelty is a snake eating its own tail and growing ever fatter.” “If”

— A.C. Fox

“The first step to having humility you need to accept something in order to change.”

— Shannon L. Alder

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty

— Aftab Alam

“Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.”

— Kamand Kojouri

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

— Veronica Roth