Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness…Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator.… — Joseph N. Welch Copy Share Image
Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged… — Russell Boyd Copy Share Image
He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present… — P. M. Forni Copy Share Image
“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get so upset about news stories and the cruelty in the world. I can't process it. And I just think there's… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes… — E.H. Aitken Copy Share Image
“As he plods behind Cameron and Summer, he can’t help but stare at Summer’s exposed, glistening skin. His thoughts aren’t depraved or… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We always say that we cannot… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is… — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul.… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if… — David S. Ware Copy Share Image
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler;… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
There's a lot of cruelty that everyone is aware of and yet puts their blinders up on. I think it's meaningful for… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
If there is a person behaving more destructively in popular culture than Mario Lavandeira, I cannot think of one. He has used… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I became an anti-fascist, and the more I saw what was happening to the peoples of Europe, the Jews, the more I… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What really got to me was not the fact that animal cruelty could predict violent behavior—it's that up until I read about… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it?… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“She doesn’t exactly know why kids don’t like her. She’s good-looking enough. She has a sense of humor. She’s not dumb. She… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
“Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and… — Kiley MacLeod Copy Share Image
No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image