Badness Quote by Lionel Trilling

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

— John Henry Newman

Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of…

— Russell Boyd

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

— Thomas Hardy

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus…

— Immanuel Kant

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

— Robinson Jeffers

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing…

— Victoria Moran

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and…

— Charles Lindbergh

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or…

— Bertrand Russell

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

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

— Ali MacGraw