Cruelty Quote by Leon Trotsky Download Open image “In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.” — Leon Trotsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cruelty Magnanimous Serious Struggle Time
It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination, — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart. — Ludovico Ariosto Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.' — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of natural law… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing...… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image