To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“What is more human than having our cruelty incited by another's weakness?” — Sana Krasikov Copy Share Image
No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart. — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity. — Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey! — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead… — David Hayden Copy Share Image
The America that never cared or felt guilty about portraying us as undignified people on their television screen, or in some old… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75 Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Not only is it important for me to create a 100% cruelty-free brand, but also send out a very clear message to… — Kat Von D 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
“Afterwards, sitting on my bunk, I cried. I read somewhere that when you’re a kid it’s people’s cruelty that makes you cry,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Don't kill me,' said the knight. 'I yield. I yield. You can't kill a man at mercy.' Lancelot put up his sword… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty. — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
