“I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done” — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances. — Sam Horn Copy Share Image
Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared… — Mira Grant 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
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
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
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current... — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task… — John Hoyt Copy Share Image
“It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well… — Dean Koontz 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
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 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
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve… — Thomas Hardy 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
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
“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 latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Games are fun but its dangerous when they are played with cruel intentions. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Leo Tolstoy Cruelty is the obvious cancer of modern civilization.” — Pravin K. Shah Copy Share Image
