“Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.” — Sujata Massey Copy Share Image
Life is kind and generous to those who respect its principles and rules, but it is hard and cruel with those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the… — Jodee Blanco Copy Share Image
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance,… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
“All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form” — The Cruxshadows Copy Share Image
we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib, You must not treat others with… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and… — G. Frank Lawlis Copy Share Image
“Sometimes honesty and cruelty go hand in hand, do they not?” she asked softly and released the curtain. It fluttered into place.… — Christi Caldwell Copy Share Image
The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine that someone said or did something cruel to you, but that you did not react in any way whatsoever – you… — Roy Masters Copy Share Image
“But of those unhappy ones who were ensnared by Melkor little is known of a certainty. For who of the living has… — Tolkein J. R. R Copy Share Image
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It is said that he had arrived at that last stage of human depravity, when cruelty becomes pleasing for its own sake,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a… — Peter Burwash Copy Share Image
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is so cruel, when the one you love with all of your heart, KNOWS what you hunger for,but still chooses to… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money… — David Chase Copy Share Image
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
“All cruelty comes from weakness, just as all human compassion can come only from strength.” — Peyton Quinn Copy Share Image
The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
CRUELTY comes after the DEATH, (after death becoming GHOST/EVIL/DEVIL), but some will have it from BIRTH. — RamanaRao VB Copy Share Image
If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“things, our society is not divided into “good” and “bad.” Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
“Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness. — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
