Quotes About Cruelty And Kindness

#1. You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.

Stuart Hill

#2. I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty.

Stephanie Oakes

#3. Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#4. Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

Laurence Overmire

#5. I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

Clarence Darrow

#6. It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.

Upton Sinclair

#7. Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.

Louise Penny

#8. When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.

Mary Doria Russell

#9. All the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all kindness is cruelty, all selfishness generous, all care callous.

David Levithan

#10. He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.

T.H. White

#11. You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.

Gloria Naylor

#12. The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.

Ann Cotton

#13. Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

George Eliot

#14. But there is neither kindness nor cruelty in time, and events happen without consideration for those who have a preference.

David Whiteland

#15. Kindness is always just as visible as the cruelty you choose to see. Your eye does the beholding. I say to you, this is a beautiful world. Choose to see it so.

Julia Cameron

#16. Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body ...

Kiley MacLeod

#17. As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

Richard Gere

#18. Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.

Amy Engel

#19. I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done

Rosamund Hodge

#20. So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong?
In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

Cesar Chavez

#22. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil.

John Steinbeck

#23. There are things in this book, as in life, that might upset you. There is death and pain in here, tears and discomfort, violence of all kinds, cruelty, even abuse. There is kindness, too, I hope, sometimes. Even a handful of happy endings. (Few

Neil Gaiman

#24. Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

Jenny Holzer

#25. Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

Rohinton Mistry

#26. The revelation of kindness hurts worse than cruelty. There is no way to equal it. Nowhere to put her gratitude, and so it thrashes in her body.

Emily Ruskovich

#27. Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#28. People can surprise you in so many ways, both with cruelty and with kindness.

Alice Hoffman

#29. I have seen this happen before, how one act of parental kindness across a history of cruelty can make a kid in here forgive everything that came before simply because they have been deprived of kindness for so long.

Kerry Kletter

#30. I would never have learned that light can be found in even the darkest of hells. That kindness can thrive even amongst the cruelty.

Sarah J. Maas

#31. And for Peter ... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.

Mike Carey

#32. When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Glen Duncan

#33. I say it's better to take a chance on the possibility of kindness than endure the certainty of cruelty.

Courtney Schafer

#34. It's much easier to be cruel than one might think.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#35. Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

Sam Horn

#36. For every act of cruelty mankind is capable of, they're just as capable of kindness.(Leta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#37. He'd set his mouth in a feral line that could have tipped toward kindness or to cruelty in a second.

Cate Rowan

#38. If you recieved a nickel for every act of your kindness and had to pay a nickel for every act of your negativity and cruelty, would you be a man of wealth? or poverty?

Anonymous

#39. In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue

Munia Khan

#40. We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.

Cesar Chavez

#41. Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind

Munia Khan

#42. Dealing with Caleb was all about perspective. You couldn't appreciate his kindness until you'd felt his cruelty.

C.J. Roberts

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

Cesar Chavez

#44. Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Terry Pratchett

#45. We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them
exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

Cesar Chavez

#46. People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

Cheri Huber

#47. People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

Maggie Stiefvater

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty? Jessica

Frank Herbert

#52. If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty.

Paul Hoffman

#53. I would rather lose with kindness than win with cruelty.

Debasish Mridha

#54. There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

W. Somerset Maugham

#55. We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos ... Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

Lemony Snicket

#56. People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.

Philip Pullman

#57. This dreadful matter brought from these downtrodden people no outburst of rage against these oppressors. They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.

Mark Twain

#58. She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

Dean Koontz

#59. Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

Cesar Chavez

#60. Kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty.

Sarah J. Maas

#61. The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

Robert Gottlieb

#62. Good people turn to love, courage and kindness in times of crisis, not hate, fear and cruelty.

Laurence Overmire

#63. It was worse
knowing he knew the difference between kindness and cruelty and chose the baser of the two.

C.J. Roberts

#64. Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Idries Shah

#65. Cruelty, I understand. But kindness frightens me, for my defenses are weak against it. ~Zahra

Jessica Khoury

#66. Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert

#67. Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more kindness. And remember one more thing: Those who remind you of this simple fact-keep them close

Dalia Mogahed

#68. Win hatred with love, enemies with friendship, and cruelty with kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#69. I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

Edward Albee

#70. In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

Rowan Williams