Cruelty Quotes

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

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

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.