The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“I am loath to call clemency what was, rather, the exhaustion of cruelty.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“You’re gorgeous, Gabriel. You always were, you know.” “Nature’s cruelty— the fallen angel retains his beauty. But I’m ugly on the inside.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
“They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Blood dripped from his blackfly bites. The bottle flies swarmed the wounds on his head and back, but with his arms secured… — Circa24 Copy Share Image
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a… — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed… — Junius Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
“Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“There was also the Argument of Increasing Decency, which basically held that cruelty was linked to stupidity and that the link between… — Ian M. Banks Copy Share Image
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less… — Hans Askenasy Copy Share Image
We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested… — Vesanto Melina Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
