Cruelty Quote by Mao Zedong

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

— Thomas Fuller

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

— Simon Schama

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is…

— Vernon Howard

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

— Victor Hugo

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were…

— Rose Macaulay

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but…

— Victor Hugo

“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We…

— Rachel Carson

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly treated, but…

— Victor Hugo

“And Leites and Wolf were wrong. “It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

— Anonymous