Ability Quote by Albert Bandura

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

— J. M. Coetzee

Why must we be so cruel to the things we don't understand.

— Anonymous

The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence…

— David Graeber

“[W]e are hardened to what we know, and we rationalise and even justify cruelties practised by us and our like while retaining the capacity…

— John Keegan

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

— Annie Lennox

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

— Marie Stopes

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

— John Updike

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been…

— Quentin Crisp

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

— Jacqueline Carey

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

— Anonymous

If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

— Hasdai ibn Shaprut