Cruelty Quote by Eric Hoffer

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts…

— Eric Hoffer

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

— Confucius

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

— James Russell Lowell

As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and…

— George Amos Dorsey

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed…

— Hans Askenasy

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Over the years I had convinced myself that brutality required motive, but this is a fool’s deceit. Cruelty is the motive; religion and politics…

— Lee Thomas

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

— Abraham Lincoln

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited…

— Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited…

— Albert Schweitzer

When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and…

— Michel Foucault