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Cruelty Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the…
- Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that…
- The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy…
- Man is the cruelest animal.
- To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle…
- There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this…
More Cruelty Quotes
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's… — Margaret Atwood
- Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler
- What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and… — William Blake
- Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been… — George W. Bush
- The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be… — George W. Bush
- Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would… — Samuel Butler
- To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler
- Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and… — George Clooney