She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.” — Archilochus of Paros Copy Share Image
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
To insult someone we call him estial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Mexico has made a mistake. Alone, it fights a war against a global phenomenon that only matters to a few. That makes… — Sabina Berman Copy Share Image
'I'm a Celebrity' is not my cup of tea whatsoever. I don't like the animal cruelty in it, to be honest. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“When you’re a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a… — William Jones Copy Share Image
What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously… — Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior Lawson Soulsby Copy Share Image
“They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking… — Zora Neal Hurston Copy Share Image
“I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty toward her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“You think history is the history of loving hearts? You fool! Look at these millions of dead. Can you pity them, feel… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image