Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.” — Archilochus of Paros Copy Share Image
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If you betray me, Leta…Kill me. Be kind and don’t let me live in the shadow of your cruelty. I can’t take… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Don't judge someone unless you know all the bullshit that they've had to deal with in their lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood. — Joseph Albo Copy Share Image
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The reason why cruel men persist to do bad deeds just because they don't want to lose their cruel friends. — Jehan Fostanes Nayga Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation… Typical abuses I have witnessed… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn’t… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
“One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The… — Gail A. Eisnitz Copy Share Image
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
