Cruelty Quotes · Page 2

“He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.”

— Margaret Way

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

— Honore de Balzac

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

— William Shakespeare

“Insensitive to the point of cruelty.”

— Umera Ahmed

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Cruelties should be committed all at once.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

All just laws condemn cruelty.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

He’s ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

— Martin Firrell

Why don't you realize, that your words really do cut me down to size?

— Anonymous

“Start your future with an act of cruelty and continue your life carrying it in your soul”

— Sameh Elsayed

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

— Henry Ward Beecher

People change in order to survive in this cruel world

— Alvin

“The cruelty and brutishness of men is, on occasion, more than I can bear to witness.”

— Rachel Urquhart

You must learn that to endure cruelty is to become cruel yourself

— Bleach

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

— Georges Lefebvre

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness,…

— Dean Koontz

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity…

— Edward Irving

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of…

— Charlotte Lamb

“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These…

— Shannon L. Alder

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

— Lionel Shriver

Animal cruelty is like a sick focus point at one extreme of almost universal raping of mother nature for mans greed.

— Anonymous

Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is…

— Clarence Darrow

We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering…

— Ingrid Newkirk

[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his…

— Ouida

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important…

— Anonymous

“The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as…

— Lundy Bancroft

I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The…

— Patrick Stump

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,…

— Philip Pullman

“And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm…

— Mike Carey

This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to…

— Cornelia Funke

Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.…

— C. S. Lewis

The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors……

— Frederick Douglass

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that…

— Haruki Murakami

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or…

— Ben H. Winters

My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed…

— Portia de Rossi

As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict…

— John William Draper