Cruelty Quote by John Keegan

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence…

— Jon Evans

“As always, the challenge is to find an exogenous change that precedes the change in sensibilities and behavior so we can avoid the circularity…

— Steven Pinker

“Suddenly, mankind’s policy of intolerance—which I had always obeyed but never much considered—made itself clear to me. How total. How cruel.”

— G.S. Denning

“Similarly, the people actually causing the the harm directly don't want us to be reminded of the their practices--in fact, they often make very…

— Wayne Pacelle

Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.

— Antonin Scalia

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one…

— Albert Bandura

“When we try to bring about change in our societies, we are treated first with indifference, then with ridicule, then with abuse and then…

— A.T. Ariyarante

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a…

— Anonymous

“Cruel’ or a ‘tool’? For if we see pain as an adversary, we will see nothing but the former and we will forfeit the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

“People can be cruel, deadly, heartless, selfish, disrespectful. They can be vice-ridden and lack any basic empathy toward their fellow man.”

— Carrie Lofty

“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of…

— Marcel Proust