Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you betray me, Leta…Kill me. Be kind and don’t let me live in the shadow of your cruelty. I can’t take… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Even when someone fails, there's never an underlying nastiness or cruelty. We're an affectionate show and we're not poking fun at anyone.… — Tess Daly Copy Share Image
“No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“This wasn’t romance. This was a hardcore Master out and out driving her to the upper level of madness, where her body… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
“My master always said you couldn't beat a skill out of somebody. They had to learn in their own way and time.… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation… Typical abuses I have witnessed… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that with women, cruelty is more easily borne… — Arnold Haultain Copy Share Image
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“The evil I'm talking about lives in us all. It takes hold in an individual, in private lives, within a family, adn… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world,… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
