The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
A double standard is a scandal. A single standard is an atrocity. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
To insult someone we call him estial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“When you’re a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
'I'm a Celebrity' is not my cup of tea whatsoever. I don't like the animal cruelty in it, to be honest. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously… — Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior Lawson Soulsby Copy Share Image
“I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty toward her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a… — William Jones Copy Share Image
What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of life, one leading to righteousness, which brings happiness, and the other to unrighteousness, which produces misery. One… — Arthur Findlay Copy Share Image
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The powerful fey close to me still hate me and don’t want me on the throne. If they could have, they would… — Kalcee Clornel Copy Share Image
“Riding out with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt, White recorded the first time he saw a kill with distanced fascination. The… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The evil I'm talking about lives in us all. It takes hold in an individual, in private lives, within a family, adn… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that with women, cruelty is more easily borne… — Arnold Haultain Copy Share Image
“Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
![“At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns report, stating that it clearly demonstrated that the practice of hunting wild animals with dogs caused cruelty. The report did not state that.” quote by Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior Lawson Soulsby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b80/baron-soulsby-of-swaffham-prio_animal_at-no-point-did-the-burns-committee-conc_1429772.jpg)
