Body Quote by Tom Junod

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

— Samuel Johnson

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still…

— Samuel Johnson

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,

— Antonin Artaud

You must learn that to endure cruelty is to become cruel yourself

— Bleach

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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 the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

— Soledad O'Brien

“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark…

— William Jones

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more…

— Aldous Huxley

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

— Lupita Nyong'o