1.
Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.
River Phoenix
Although I can't put an end to all harm inflicted on living beings on the planet, I can be gentler with every living creature in my life.
3.
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.
David Hume
4.
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
Henry Becque
5.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Robinson Jeffers
6.
Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
Martin Amis
7.
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
Alice Walker
8.
Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.
T. S. Eliot
12.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Leon Trotsky
13.
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.
Ian Somerhalder
14.
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
Pamela Anderson
15.
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
Cesar Chavez
16.
What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.
Thomas Paine
17.
In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.
Robert Jordan
18.
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
Ingrid Newkirk
20.
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
Paul Tillich
21.
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
Bertrand Russell
23.
Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.
Michael J. Sullivan
25.
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
Sigmund Freud
26.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
Anna Sewell
28.
I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
Veronica Roth
29.
Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
30.
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Ken Kesey
31.
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?
Storm Jameson
33.
I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
Ali MacGraw
34.
I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
Morarji Desai
37.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller
38.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Anatole France
40.
It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.
Nathan Runkle
41.
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
Antonin Artaud
42.
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Jodie Foster
43.
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
Assata Shakur
46.
It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.
Robert Burns
49.
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
Bette Greene
50.
The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.
Matthew Scully