Acid Quote by Rose Macaulay

Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress.

— William Blake

Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves…

— Ernest Renan

He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he…

— Anna Sewell

And in that hour, The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd To such gigantic and enormous growth, Were sown in human nature's fruitful…

— William Cowper

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

“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a people live…

— Anthony Ryan

Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that.…

— Adolf Hitler

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is…

— Elihu Root

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need…

— Charlotte Lamb

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

— Ellen Glasgow

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 to animals is as if humans did not love God.

— John Henry Newman