The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
“There is enough cruelty in the world," she told me softly, "to justify all the music ever made.” — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“whose early life had been so embittered by continual proof of neglect and cruelty in human parents toward their children, the love… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
“I mean consider how very horrible it is to read the accounts which sometimes meet us of cruelty inflicted on brute animals.… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
“Animal abuse should be taken seriously not just because of our concern for humans. Lax enforcement of animal-cruelty laws leads to untold… — Clif Flynn Copy Share Image
“Torture when inflicted on children becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible practice to extract information, the… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
“It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty. “Why is it important?” Because when you read about… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are people in this world whose central focus is to permeate cruelty with little regard for their own karmic penalties. Love… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“When they were only a few yards from the stone hull, Inej halted and watched the mists wreathing the branches. “He was… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“To hold her, to keep her -- just as she was -- with her cruelty, with her vulgarity, with her blinding blue… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The cruelty and brutishness of men is, on occasion, more than I can bear to witness.” — Rachel Urquhart Copy Share Image
“Start your future with an act of cruelty and continue your life carrying it in your soul” — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
He’s ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
