Cruelty Quote by Zora Neal Hurston

“It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes…

— Mark Twain

“Depressed and slinking though they were, eyes of fire were not wanting among them; nor compressed lips, white with what they suppressed”

— Charles Dickens

“The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there…

— Anne Rice

“But there was no God. There was no faith. No mercy, forgiveness, or love. There was only all-consuming anger that burned so hot it…

— Ania Ahlborn

“Gods work! Silence so great it hurts your ears, colour so bright it hurts your staring eyes. A vicious ruined class of man could…

— Sebastian Barry

“But with all their mocking they had only hardened his resolve. And the odd thing was, they took a perverse pleasure in it, as…

— Brenda Rickman Vantrease

“What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission?…

— Ayn Rand

“The right words are fire that burn through the most stagnant of hearts and minds”

— Ashley Lynn Dotson

“And what about the most merciful Christian God, slowly roasting in the fires of hell all those who would not submit? Was He not…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

“Burning was a bad way to go, but my reserves of empathy were usually exhausted on orphans and puppies, a lot higher up the…

— Ed McDonald

“But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city…

— Kurt Vonnegut