Born Quote by Eric Hoffer

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to…

— Thomas Paine

Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest…

— Philip Pullman

Hatred is is nothing more than an emotional byproduct of fear; it's poisonous venom is the nucleus of unhappiness. - Johnny Luckett

— Johnny Luckett

“One result for many people is a tendency to think that power comes from cruelty or indifference. But, in reality such things are not…

— Anonymous

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of humanity's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying by these adjectives that such behaviour is characteristic of…

— Storr

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

— William Blake

“Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities…

— C.S. Lewis

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.

— Henri Matisse

From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion…

— Howard Bloom

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

— Tom Hiddleston

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

— Mason Cooley