Affront Quote by Jo Coudert

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

— Ellen Glasgow

Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.

— Peter Maurer

“Why does every deliberately cruel person describe themselves as the perfect example of necessary bluntness?”

— Mia Sheridan

“And why does every deliberately cruel person seem to consider themselves the perfect example of necessary bluntness? As if you're supposed to thank them…

— Mia Sheridan

The cruelest thing you can do to a person is pretend they mean more to you than they actually do.

— Anonymous

People can be cruelest to those they love.

— Veronica Rossi

With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not…

— Lewis B. Smedes

“And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard it as…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

— Albert Einstein

I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself) is part…

— Jean Rhys

This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of…

— Swami Vivekananda

For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge.…

— Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela