You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty. — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.” — Silje Akselberg Iversen Copy Share Image
It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they… — Fannie Hurst 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
Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Cruelty is a waste of precious time and energy but kindness is an investment which pays endless dividends. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance. And yet we suffer,… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I am always struck by how difficult it is for people to see how much cruelty they are bringing not only upon… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion. He was an old lion, prepared from… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!” — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image