The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.” — Shannon l. Alder Copy Share Image
“He read the words, wondering when cruelty won the vote from democracy.” — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think my cruelty hides beneath the surface a lot more than Sue Sylvester's. — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own… — Lisle Von Rhuman Copy Share Image
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles… — Rebecca Stead 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
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
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“One result for many people is a tendency to think that power comes from cruelty or indifference. But, in reality such things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty,… — Susan Sontag 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
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 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
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
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
“Silence!” Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. “You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.” The historian faced him. “I am.” “You are… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“human cruelty was to never be underestimated, always to be believed in,” — Brian Lee Durfee Copy Share Image
“If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.” — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image