Top 1030 Cruelty Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.

All just laws condemn cruelty.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

Truth without compassion is Cruelty.

Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake is good. They like it, provided the message is wrapped up a little. And they like messages saying that murder is bad, cruelty is bad, and love is love is love is love. What they can't stand is to be told it all doesn't matter, they can't stand formlessness.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America - even those designated as ‘unlawful enemy combatants.’ If you make this exception, the whole Constitution crumbles.

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are many crimes which are the creation of man himself, the wrongfulness of which is put down to their divergence from habit, custom, or tradition. But cruelty is not of these. It is a fundamental sin, and admits of no argument or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, its protest against cruelty is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.

There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Cruelty is the only sin.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty.

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.

There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.

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

Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts.

For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that with women, cruelty is more easily borne than coldness. Indeed, It is astonishing how much downright cruelty a woman will stand from the man she loves or has loved. What women admire is a subtle combination of forcefulness and gentleness. If a woman has to choose between forcefulness and gentleness, always she will sacrifice the latter.

A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.