Cruelty Quotes

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.

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.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

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?

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.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.