Cruelty Quotes · Page 51

“All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you…

— Ford Madox Ford

Even when someone fails, there's never an underlying nastiness or cruelty. We're an affectionate show and we're not poking fun at anyone.…

— Tess Daly

Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet…

— Tullian Tchividjian

I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden.…

— Julius Streicher

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

— John Galsworthy

The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as…

— Anthony Daniels

I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What…

— Ian Doescher

I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things…

— Stephen King

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

— Anonymous

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

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft…

— Michel de Montaigne

There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India…

— Colin Dexter

What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.

— Amala Akkineni

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in…

— Ellen G. White

The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.

— Samuel Johnson

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake…

— Ashim Shanker

“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”

— Belinda Jeffrey

The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being…

— Brom

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its…

— George Orwell

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you…

— Anonymous

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

— Averroes

It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.

— Barack Obama