Cruelty Quotes

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

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.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

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

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

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

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

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

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.