Best Cruelty Proverbs
773 Cruelty quotes by 532 unique authors
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My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
— Cesare Borgia
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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
— Robert Ardrey
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If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.
— Haruo Shirane
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Truth without compassion is Cruelty.
— Antero Alli
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May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love,…
— George Eliot
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War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and…
— C. E. M. Joad
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One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
— Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
— Antonin Artaud
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Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,…
— J M Coetzee
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The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they…
— John Henry Newman
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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the…
— Vernon Howard
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Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless…
— Unknown Author
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We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of…
— S. Parkes Cadman
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In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.
— Unknown Author
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and…
— Unknown Author
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An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold…
— Samuel Johnson
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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
— Maurice Sendak
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I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all…
— Martin McDonagh
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Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.
— Noah Richler
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Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.
— Cassia Leo
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
— Elie Wiesel
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Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round…
— Unknown Author
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The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.
— William Carlos Williams
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