Cruelty Quotes

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

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

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

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

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

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

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

War is cruelty,
and none can make it gentle.

Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

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

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

Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)

What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

Most animal experimentation is useless.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

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

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

All just laws condemn cruelty.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

Cruelties should be committed all at once.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.