Cruelty Quotes

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

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

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

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

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

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

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

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.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.