Top 100 Cruel To Quotes
#1. Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#2. I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.
Bjork
#3. If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
#4. One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.
Morarji Desai
#5. Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
John Rawls
#6. Draco's like... snow," said Hermione quietly, her gaze absent and distracted. "It's cold and cruel to begin with, but it's somehow beautiful, and you miss it when it's not there. And if you hold it in your hands close enough and long enough, it changes. It melts.
Bex-chan
#7. A man should not be cruel to things weaker than himself,
Rick Bragg
#8. And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved doesn't make the mistake of loving us again or loving us for the first time.
Brock Clarke
#9. The summer is cruel to its leaves, the fall to its colors, the winter to us.
Herta Muller
#10. It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
Kenneth Branagh
#11. I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.
Ben Aaronovitch
#12. Here you are ... A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of ... And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been cruel to you ... Or perhaps life has been cruel.
"I don't know sir" I said, Though of course I knew perfectly well.
Arthur Golden
#13. It's cruel to give hope where none should be. It only turns into disappointment, resentment, rage -- all the things that make this life more difficult than it already is.
Victoria Aveyard
#14. The Maoris are a strong race both physically and mentally. Revengeful and cruel to their enemies, they were passionate in love and ever fearless in war.
Kate McCosh Clark
#15. I think it's outrageously cruel to keep a puzzle that they know is missing a single piece.
Neal Shusterman
#16. The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.
Martin Samuel
#17. It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.
Bryant McGill
#18. The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
John Lancaster Spalding
#19. You only have to be cruel to one person to qualify as a cruel person.
Maggie Young
#20. According to some Christian teachings, Jesus and God ascended above the sun, the moon and the stars leaving us to be slaughtered by Satan, and then told us to come and seek them, where it would never be possible for any human to reach. What kind of a God would be so cruel to His children?
Nicky Verster
#21. It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
W. Somerset Maugham
#22. I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
Delta Burke
#23. Fate was cruel to play this trick on her, although if she were honest she knew she only had herself to blame. She had taken the chance and now she had to pay the price.
Emily Arden
#24. I never say to him, 'Let this or that enemy alone, because it would be ungenerous or cruel to harm them'; I say, 'Let them alone, because I should hate them to be wronged': and he'd crush you like a sparrow's egg, Isabella , if he found you a troublesome charge.
Emily Bronte
#25. If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!
Brene Brown
#26. I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.
Cesar Millan
#27. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
Mark Twain
#28. He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
#29. There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love.
Rick Bass
#30. Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.
Don King
#31. Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.
Betty Smith
#32. You ought to try being cruel to some people.
Mike Judge
#33. We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.
Sufjan Stevens
#34. Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
Stephen Fry
#36. 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
#37. Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
Horace
#39. Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#40. In truth, if I admitted to the world that I believe God made me as I am, the church would excommunicate me, but I know this to be true. I am not an evil man - nor greedy, nor cruel to those in need. Yet the law would have me hang for love, the purest of human emotions.
H.C. Brown
#41. How can he be so cruel to me at times - and then like this? she thought. And again her awakening perceptions gave her the answer. He would hurt her himself, take pleasure in doing so, but he would not allow her to be injured by anyone or anything else
Anya Seton
#42. It's cruel to bring life into this terrible world.
Woody Allen
#43. Sometimes, I think that thugs learn to be brutal because people have been cruel to them. If you want to make a dog vicious, all you have to do is beat him for no reason. It's the same with a kid, only easier. You don't even need to beat him. Jeering and mocking him is enough.
Marie Sabine Roger
#44. If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
Ann Coulter
#45. I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.
Cassandra Clare
#46. If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#47. When it comes to death, nature is much more cruel to predators than predators are to their own prey
Elizabeth Lowell
#48. I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.
Joel Edgerton
#49. I hate you! (Artemis)
Don't keep saying that, Artie. It's cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. Gods, when did we discover how easy it is to be cruel to one another?
Scott Lynch
#52. Claudius, you're luckier than you realize. Guard your appointment jealously. Don't let anyone usurp it."
"What do you mean, girl?"
"I mean that people don't kill their butts. They are cruel to them, they frighten them, they rob them, but they don't kill them.
Robert Graves
#53. But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.
Stefan Zweig
#54. He thought for a second, then spun to Clara. 'Did you say something cruel to the TARDIS while I was getting changed?'
'No! Of course not!'
'Did you call her fat?'
'What?'
'Because she's not fat. She's just bigger on the inside.
Tommy Donbavand
#55. Be cruel to me , cause I'm a fool for you.
Alex Turner
#56. It's more cruel to give someone false hope than telling the bitter truth
Unknown
#57. Time can be very good or very cruel to films.
James Gray
#58. If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.
James Baldwin
#59. Had I been too cruel to that horror, Miss Mountjoy? Too vindictive? Wasn't she, after all, just a harmless and lonely old spinster? Would a Larry de Luce have been more understanding?
'Hell, no!' I shouted into the wind ...
Alan Bradley
#61. I, cruel to Marks? I'm the one you should worry about. After a conversation with her, I usually walk away with my entrails dragging behind me.
Lisa Kleypas
#62. We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel. To do so harms others. That's wrong. Therefore we don't disembowel Bambi like the way coyotes do, we shoot him first.
P. J. O'Rourke
#63. Stay young as long as you can. This world can be mighty cruel to a grown up.
M.A. Wood
#64. Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other ... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#65. Only seven or eight, and yet she knew so exactly how to be cruel and who it was safe to be cruel to. One must admire Nature..
Jean Rhys
#66. We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.
Virginia McKenna
#67. We live in a cruel world, Isabel," he says, without looking at me. "I am only a man, and will not always live up to your expectations. And to me, that is a painful reality. But we must never be cruel to one another. Let there be peace between us.
Sylvia Bambola
#68. Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of.
Jo Ann Beard
#69. I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a father. I could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is cruel to take a baby away from its mother.
Stefano Gabbana
#70. You're cruel to make me laugh right now," Perry said, trying to keep as still as possible. Any sharp movement and his ribs felt like they'd crack.
"Sorry," Aria said. She was smiling, her lower lip trapped between her teeth.
"Yeah ... you look sorry.
Veronica Rossi
#71. Aw, baby, that's like turning the key to an engine and then deciding not to drive ... it's just ... cruel to the car.
Rachel Van Dyken
#72. You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Steve Irwin
#73. Cruelty is absolutely foreign to their natures.Some people once talked of setting up a branch of the " Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" in Serbia, and were asked in astonishment what work they supposed they would find to do ; who ever heard of a Serbian being cruel to child or animal?
Flora Sandes
#74. It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.
Lemony Snicket
#75. We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal, you are training yourself to be cruel to people, too (and vice versa).
Jonathan Balcombe
#76. This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm.
Seanan McGuire
#77. I'm afraid for you," he'd said. "The world can be cruel to your kind." But Jesper had always wondered if maybe his father had been a little afraid of him, too.
Leigh Bardugo
#78. If you don't want to take risk, life would be cruel to you.
Sunday Adelaja
#79. Perhaps your way of keeping yourself t yourself was cruel to the people who wanted you to show them your insides.
L. H. Cosway
#80. Knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question
Laura Wiess
#81. Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida
#83. That's why for you, you have the right to be cruel to me. No matter how much you make me worry or how much danger you put me in, just as much as you like. But these are not enough 'compensation.' Even if I have to sacrifice my left over life for you, I would not utter a word of complaint.
Matsuri Hino
#84. He couldn't help but give in to the occasional temptation to replay past events in his mind, altering them, changing them from cruel to comfortable, from sad to happy, from unfair to accommodating. Anything was possible in his imagination. Any ending. If only thinking it could make it so.
Kevin Henkes
#85. Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way.
Tegan Quin
#87. The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
Martin O'Malley
#88. Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.
Nick Clooney
#89. Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
Leonard Cohen
#91. Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#92. I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.
Elizabeth Hurley
#93. I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
Gary Larson
#94. My grandma let the dog out of the coal shed. She said my mother was cruel to lock it up. The dog was sick on the kitchen floor. My grandma locked it up again.
Sue Townsend
#95. (Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and - oh - tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.
Charlaine Harris
#96. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.
Bjork
#97. So we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it.
J.I. Packer
#98. Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#99. How can God be so cruel to grow love in such hopeless places?
Fiona Paul
#100. Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word, is it right to attract Wombats?
Will Cuppy
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