Abuse Quote by Jess C. Scott

“Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

— Joseph O'Connor

we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“The most savage of human kind are the most advanced”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we…

— Robertson Davies

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Unlooked-for kindness can cut deep as cruelties if they come at the wrong time.”

— Lyndsay Faye

Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

— Mason Cooley

“I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“We sometimes hear of the cruelties of the Inquisition, of the barbarity of the Irish, of the tyranny of priestcraft; but such cruelties, barbarities,…

— Mary Frances Cusack