Top 1030 Cruelty Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

I think my cruelty hides beneath the surface a lot more than Sue Sylvester's.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

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

'I'm a Celebrity' is not my cup of tea whatsoever. I don't like the animal cruelty in it, to be honest.

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

He’s ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

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

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

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.