Top 100 Quotes About Cruelty
#1. If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
Marianne Moore
#2. Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#4. 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
#5. 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.
Kate Millett
#6. You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.
Douglas Coupland
#7. There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
James Russell Lowell
#9. I would rather lose with kindness than win with cruelty.
Debasish Mridha
#10. The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can't fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly.
Caroline Kepnes
#11. No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
Josiah Royce
#12. Words can be as deadly as bullets. But bullets are faster acting. ~ Brandon Hull
Jayden Hunter
#13. Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oscar Wilde
#14. Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.
Dale Spender
#15. Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Bryant H. McGill
#16. If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty.
Paul Hoffman
#17. Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.
David Hume
#18. It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#19. Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.
Elie Wiesel
#20. Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It's also chicken-shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously - like technology allows so many people to do these days.
Brene Brown
#21. The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
Sukarno
#22. Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Philip Sidney
#23. A thing of beauty is a joy forever: It's loveliness increases: it will never pass into nothingness. Pleasure is oft a visitant, but pain clings cruelty to us.
John Keats
#24. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.
Osho
#25. Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Robinson Jeffers
#26. The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on
and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter ...
H. Jay Dinshah
#28. Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan
#29. I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.
Mark Ruffalo
#30. Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty? Jessica
Frank Herbert
#31. Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
Mason Cooley
#32. 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.
Henry Rollins
#33. Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
Jane Austen
#34. Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.
Ellen Glasgow
#35. War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.
C.E.M. Joad
#36. Some dark nights hide the cruelest of secrets. Such are the tales of the dark shadows hidden in that old castle in a distant land. The story of ages started with a classic; highlighting the infamous monster made out of a man.
Adhish Mazumder
#37. If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
Christian Morgenstern
#39. 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?
Joan D. Vinge
#40. Cruelty lacks pleasure when it's directed at you, doesn't it?
Sarah MacLean
#42. It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.'
'Why not?'
'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.
George Orwell
#43. So, you see, in essence, cruelty is a cycle. A person inflicts it and it spreads. It simply breeds more and more of itself in a loop.
L. H. Cosway
#44. I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
Veronica Roth
#45. That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.
Samuel Richardson
#46. I can't stand cruelty to animals. Nothing gives a man the right to take his frustrations out on an innocent creature
Elise Noble
#47. Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.
Rachel Carson
#48. You could read a hundred books about the attitudes and beliefs of the past, but the impact of witnessing this casual, ignorant cruelty firsthand was like having a bucket of ice upended over your head.
Alexandra Bracken
#49. He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.
Shannon A. Thompson
#50. Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller
#51. This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
Josiah Warren
#52. If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold
Lucy Parsons
#53. He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.
Ouida
#54. There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?
It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.
John Boyne
#55. Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.
Angelina Jolie
#56. The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.
Arthur Koestler
#57. I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm.
G.K. Chesterton
#58. I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.
Josephine Baker
#59. Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy
#60. It's all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings.
Gillian Flynn
#61. I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
Morarji Desai
#62. The room rang with her voice, then with silence. In the shaded darkness, silence had the quality of a looming dragon. It seemed to roar and the roar to reverberate, to dominate. To escape from it would require a burst of recklessness, even cruelty.
Anita Desai
#63. He'd been expelled from the movement by Gerry Adams in 1985 for threatening to initiate a campaign of murder that would have hampered the new political strategy. It was a bit like being kicked out of the Gestapo for cruelty.
Andy McNab
#64. I want to study human... madness... cruelty... agression... anger... craziness... and other features... I want to find how far can they get!
Deyth Banger
#65. I never, even for a moment, doubted what they'd told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt's complete absence. They have forgotten.
David Foster Wallace
#66. Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.
John Calvin
#68. This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air
too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.
David Henry Hwang
#69. The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.
Lewis Mumford
#70. People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.
David Chase
#71. There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.
Thomas Paine
#72. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
Alice Walker
#73. It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty
Shashi Deshpande
#74. Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.
Nella Larsen
#75. It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women ... that we should be the ones who so desperately need love ... affection ... acceptance.And yet, we suffer ... many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives.-Shackles of Honor
Marcia Lynn McClure
#76. You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#77. The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.
G.K. Chesterton
#78. It's interesting to note that the most kind and courageous souls you meet in life tend to be those who've faced the most cruelty and conflict. This vicious world might sharpen us like a blade, but whether we use that power to protect people or cause them pain is always our choice.
Beau Taplin
#79. There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw
#80. Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.
David Mitchell
#81. Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
Nalini Singh
#83. Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.
Marianne Williamson
#84. Humanity hadn't changed, but it had. The venality and the nobility, the cruelty and the grace. They were all still there. It was just the particulars he felt shifting away from under him.
James S.A. Corey
#85. There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#86. Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#87. Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#88. If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
Malala Yousafzai
#89. I hated her; I wanted her to burn, the way so many of the corrupted had burned, because she'd put her hold on them. But wanting cruelty felt like another wrong answer in an endless chain.
Naomi Novik
#90. Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
Robin Hobb
#91. I am not cruel," he said. "Not in the sense you mean. But cruelty is a useful tool if one can only recognise the precise moment when it must be used.
Alastair Reynolds
#92. People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
Caroline B. Cooney
#93. I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'
George Thorndike Angell
#95. Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's power does not truly give us solace. It is deeply anxiety producing. The more we watch spectacles of death, of random violence and cruelty, the more afraid we become in our daily lives.
Bell Hooks
#96. Morality often manifests itself as cruelty, So be very kind before you are moral.
Debasish Mridha
#97. One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
Margaret Mead
#98. We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
Michel De Montaigne
#99. What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?
Nenia Campbell
#100. I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.
Richard O'Barry
