Cruelty Quotes

Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,Though you are the sister of the river willows...

So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake th...

I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidentl...

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first...

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the an...

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without h...

We spend a lifetime undoing the damage caused by cruelty, neglect, and all manner of lovelessness ex...

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they inven...

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is ...

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learne...

...two chimpanzees were observed maltreating a chicken: One would extend some food to the fowl, enco...

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained...

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...

I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since...

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Si...

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all...

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even pare...

In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invi...

It’s a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruel...

It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. T...

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with al...

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises ...

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of li...

There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orde...

All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if the...

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever...

Man is the cruelest animal.

Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixation...

Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there...

today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it isalmost an ordeal, which would ma...

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as livi...

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a p...

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire ...

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a m...

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the grea...

It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have ...

It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in ...

I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a ...

We all have flaws and mine is being wicked.

It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the caus...

. . . have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the...

It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write wh...

So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of li...

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the s...

What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals...

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty...

That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. Iwas weeping for an altoge...

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

It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with s...

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you d...

... the burrowing wasp, which in order to provide a supply of fresh meat for her offspring after her...

Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one whi...

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no rom

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance.")

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse...

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and kill...

in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your hous...

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...

I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and ...

I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it,...

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much ...

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...

People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry...

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it h...

He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they wer...

...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, ...

Silence!” Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. “You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.”The histor...

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, a...

I am not cruel —only truthful.

Don't kill me,' said the knight. 'I yield. I yield. You can't kill a man at mercy.'Lancelot put up h...

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ...

April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring...

April is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringd...

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable...

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.--Blanche Dubois

Do you understand what I'm saying?"shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!""Why Not...

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to...

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

I know about sureness,' said Didactylos. 'I remember, before I was blind, I went to Omnia once. And ...