Ardent Quote by Nella Larsen

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated…

— Andrew Solomon

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

— George Bernard Shaw

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

— John Tillotson

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

— Tom Hiddleston

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

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

— Max Lucado

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at…

— Therese of Lisieux

The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone...we must be compassionate!

— Josephine Bakhita

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

— Elisabeth Elliot

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

— Rae Foley

What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been…

— Georg Brandes

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

— Abraham Lincoln