Cruelty Quote by Cassia Leo

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

“Humanity was an ugly word when such cruelty was inflicted on one another.”

— Gayendra Abeywardane

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

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

— Ludovico Ariosto

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

— Jacqueline Carey

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and…

— Clarence Darrow

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

— Noah Richler

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

— Shashi Deshpande

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

— Elisabeth Elliot

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

— Anonymous

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

— Anthony Daniels

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or…

— Bertrand Russell