Approach Quote by Idries Shah

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

— Sam Horn

Cruelty is a waste of precious time and energy but kindness is an investment which pays endless dividends.

— Anonymous

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

— Edward Albee

“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

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Kindness beats cruelty.”

— Louise Penny

When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

— Richard J. Daley

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

— Veronica Roth

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

— Cheri Huber

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

— David Mitchell

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

— Claudius Claudianus