Borders Quote by Constantin Stanislavski

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

— Anonymous

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.

— Annie Dillard

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

— Anthony Daniels

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

— George Eliot

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

— Leon Trotsky

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Ludovico Ariosto

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting…

— Margaret Mahy

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

— Bertrand Russell

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

— George Bernard Shaw