Absolutes Quote by Antonin Artaud

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— William Blake

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

— Veronica Roth

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

— Samuel Johnson

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign…

— Anonymous

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.

— Annie Dillard

The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is…

— Antonin Artaud

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

— Anthony Daniels

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

— Ian Somerhalder

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus…

— Immanuel Kant

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

— Ludovico Ariosto

“Insensitive to the point of cruelty.”

— Umera Ahmed