The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Poor Duchess.. Kind hearted though, Her own Duke took away her smiles...<3 — Achi_chathy Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty. — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin. — Rae Foley 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
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Maybe people don’t see the cruelty in your world right away, it’s better hidden, but it’s there all the same.” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
“It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk… — Alexei Maxim Russell Copy Share Image
We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to… — Jonathan Balcombe 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
Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is… — Rabindranath Tagore 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
As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip… — Charles Dickens 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
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
“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