Cruelty Quotes

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.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

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

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.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

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.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

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.

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.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

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

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

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

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

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.

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.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

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.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

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

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.