Cruelty Quotes

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 ...

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize...

It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives.

[Men] act in response to an outward situation, and on being presented with an opportunity to conform...

What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us?...

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous execution...

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God...

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we misse...

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’...

In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosio...

When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...

Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

For Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human d...

People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, w...

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, an...

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's m...

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes peo...

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, w...

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s b...

When a man's willing and eager God joins in.

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over ...

Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly...

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

…one of those dreadful boarding schools. It was down on the South Coast. I think some very unpleasan...

…did it make a difference if the remark never got back to the person about whom it was made? She tho...

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than...

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...