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Cruelty Quotes

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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.
Authors on Cruelty Quotes: Mason Cooley Ellen Glasgow Bertrand Russell Tennessee Williams Ingrid Newkirk Jonathan Safran Foer Jodie Foster Storm Jameson Veronica Roth Cassandra Clare Zadie Smith E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Thomas Paine Junius Assata Shakur Ken Kesey Robert Paul Weston Kristin Cashore Samuel Johnson Jenny Holzer Anna Sewell Haruo Shirane Publilius Syrus Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Matthew Scully T. S. Eliot Henry Heimlich Brené Brown Cassia Leo Maggie Stiefvater D. H. Lawrence Truman Capote Alice Walker
2.
When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
Jacqueline Carey

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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

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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

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

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Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.
T. S. Eliot

9.
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

10.
There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.
Voltairine de Cleyre

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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

19.
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

22.
Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty.
Maggie Stiefvater

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

24.
War is cruelty,
and none can make it gentle.
Gilbert Parker

25.
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
Sigmund Freud

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

27.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Frank Herbert

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

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

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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

32.
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
Tennessee Williams

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

35.
Most animal experimentation is useless.
Henry Heimlich

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

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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

39.
All just laws condemn cruelty.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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

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

44.
Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?
Soledad O'Brien

45.
Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.
Brené Brown

46.
It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.
Robert Burns

47.
Cruelties should be committed all at once.
Niccolo Machiavelli

48.
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.
Robert A. Heinlein

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