Cruelty Quote by Robert Burns

The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children .…

— Ellen Glasgow

“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

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better…

— Rachel Carson

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

— Storm Jameson

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

— Edna O'Brien

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

— Hugh Blair

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited…

— Albert Schweitzer

“Riding out with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt, White recorded the first time he saw a kill with distanced fascination. The fox was…

— Helen Macdonald

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more…

— Michael Ignatieff

There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

— Alice Walker

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

— Martin Amis