Cruelty Quote by Anne Holm

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use…

— Anne Holm

“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible…

— Alexander Berkman

“Over the years I had convinced myself that brutality required motive, but this is a fool’s deceit. Cruelty is the motive; religion and politics…

— Lee Thomas

“There was also the Argument of Increasing Decency, which basically held that cruelty was linked to stupidity and that the link between intelligence, imagination,…

— Ian M. Banks

“Violence. My body has learned to love violence, and my mind imagines terrible things”

— D.S. Wrights

“Cruelty shouldn't be met with more cruelty; the cycle of violence must end. Yet, survival often demands a fight, and sometimes there's no clear…

— David Omrai

“Isn't violence a failure of the imagination, after all? And that failure, isn't it stupidity?”

— Jeet Thayil

“But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was more violent than making them believe…

— Ishmael Beah

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as…

— Corey, James S. A

“Violence is not just an emotion, it is a culture. Some suffer in it, some are born into it and others cannot live without…

— Isabella Poretsis

“Commit cruelty on a person long enough and the mind begins to go.”

— Sophocles

“All humans were capable of atrocity. It was simply a matter of falling into a sequence of events that would drive them from timidity…

— Sean Platt