Cruelty Quote by Alice Walker

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life…

— John Boyne

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

— Noah Richler

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

— Lupita Nyong'o

They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see…

— Cornelia Funke

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

— George Herbert

Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress.

— William Blake

“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

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

— Gillian Flynn

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

— Ingrid Newkirk

We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.

— Sufjan Stevens

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need…

— Charlotte Lamb

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

— Anthony D. Williams