Cruelty Quotes
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Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what. (Quote by - Anne Roiphe)
It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity. (Quote by - David C. McCullough)
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. (Quote by - Andrea Dworkin)
Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
See what a rent the envious Casca made. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
This administration is as Machiavellian as any I recall in my lifetime, having already done much to rehabilitate the image of Nixon! In their predilection for political power, they have internalized Machiavelli's advice never to let his thoughts stray from the exercise of war. .. A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and faithful. (Quote by - Abu Ghraib)
Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I was drawn into it, .. I felt I had a ringside seat at this mixture of the theater of the absurd and theater of cruelty. (Quote by - Bernard Wasserstein)
Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress. (Quote by - William Blake)
Advocating obnoxiously is not a crime. You will hear that Kevin was very passionate about animal rights - treating animals with kindness and respect and without unnecessary cruelty. Kevin is being persecuted for these very beliefs. (Quote by - Eric Schneider)
I was drawn into it. I felt I had a ringside seat at this mixture of the theater of the absurd and theater of cruelty. (Quote by - Bernard Wasserstein)
The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening. (Quote by - Jennifer Campbell)
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. (Quote by - Anna Sewell)
I must be cruel only to be kind. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
All negative qualities which humans choose to possess: vanity, materialism, greed, cruelty, hatred, dishonesty, envy; will eventually within that soul's existence be destined for punishment; do not ask how or by whom, they just will in some form or another! Their opposites will reap opposite. (Quote by - Diego Velasquez)
What happened shows that these people want violence and not peace, .. The authorities tried to negotiate with them and were extremely patient, but these people came back with inhuman cruelty and torture. (Quote by - Thaksin Shinawatra)
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the sense, of the joy of the senses, of joy in general is Christian. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. (Quote by - William Cowper)
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty รป- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier. (Quote by - Bruce Lahn)
It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
This is a crime like I've never seen, one of infinite cruelty. They (the children) were infinitely helpless. (Quote by - David Lamb)
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. (Quote by - Alexander Hume)
All cruelty springs from weakness. (Quote by - Seneca)
The nature and degree of violence described by the victim and corroborated by the extent of her injuries is consistent with extreme cruelty and sadistic torture. (Quote by - Detective Bryan Jamison)
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. (Quote by - Alphonse de Lamartine)
All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness. (Quote by - Seneca)
If this lady is guilty of anything, it's loving these animals too much. She has them in her house. She has more than most people have in her house. But that is not cruelty. It may be eccentric. It may be unconventional. But it's not cruelty. (Quote by - David Sibley)
They are part of an animal cruelty investigation. (Quote by - Chuck McDevitt)
Despite the unique cruelty of this case, there is unfortunately certain historical experience, and unfortunately, I believe it may have been repeated. This experience concerns the idea that the authorities, without a doubt, carry some of the blame. (Quote by - Taimuraz Mamsurov)
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. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty- free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. (Quote by - Beatrice Arthur)
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. (Quote by - Dinah Sheridan)
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity. (Quote by - Edward Bach)
We probably deal with animal cruelty cases on a weekly basis, but not animal cruelty of this nature. (Quote by - Barry Pruitt)
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable, grew, blossomed and bore fruit in this one word, Hell. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
I would love to see the grimace he Marquis de Cinq-Mars is now making on the scaffold. (Quote by - Louis XIII)
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another. (Quote by - Thomas Tryon)
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more, The reign of violence is o'er!" (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. (Quote by - Thomas Fowell Buxton)
If you kept a dog in an environment like this, they would arrest you for animal cruelty. It's like a cesspool. (Quote by - Cindy Davis)
It [the world] must be a world in which affection has free play, in which love is purged of the instinct for domination, in which cruelty and envy have been dispelled by happiness and the unfettered development of all the instincts that build up life and fill it with mental delights. Such a world is possible; it waits only for men to wish to create it. (Quote by - Contributed by: Maya Elhalal)
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. (Quote by - Harriet Ann Jacobs)
The child learns to worship money and the things which money can buy; he admires cruelty and cunning, rather than Sympathy and Love. So, the Home, the School and the Society have to rise and take up this challenge posed to the future of this great land. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness. (Quote by - Ingrid Holtby)
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. (Quote by - Robinson Jeffers)
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. (Quote by - William Penn)
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. (Quote by - Jodie Foster)
It's the ultimate in hunter cruelty. (Quote by - Heidi Prescott)
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. (Quote by - George Eliot)
I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil. (Quote by - Charles Mayo)
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
Cruelty to animals needs to be a matter of public concern as it directly affect public safety and human welfare. It can no longer be perceived of as merely an issue of animal welfare. (Quote by - Diane Balkin)
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
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. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
If you eat meat, you support cruelty to animals. (Quote by - Chris Link)
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - - or can't - - join the Big Parade. (Quote by - Bette Midler)
Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so strong as widespread. But the time must come where in humanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by th. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC is being cruel in the extreme. I am calling for a boycott of all KFC restaurants until my friends at PETA tell me that you have agreed to be kinder in your practices. (Quote by - Pamela Anderson)
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. (Quote by - Marquis De Sade)
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
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. (Quote by - William E. Gladstone)
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Anyone capable of this kind of cruelty poses a serious risk, not just to animals, but to fellow human beings as well. Communities should be concerned when animal abusers are found in their midst. Research in psychology and criminology reveals a consistent pattern of cruelty to animals among perpetrators of violence toward humans. (Quote by - Martin Mersereau)
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)
I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty. (Quote by - Michael Cunningham)
Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all. (Quote by - Antonin Artaud)
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man. (Quote by - Edward Young)
Cruelty and fear shake hands together. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. (Quote by - E. L. Doctorow)
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. (Quote by - Lucanus)
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. (Quote by - Heinrich Himmler)
Thousands of cops are trained every year across our state yet they fail to receive training under the Agriculture and Markets Law that penalizes those who commit animal cruelty. (Quote by - Susan McDonough)
When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
It is the worst case of animal cruelty I have seen. (Quote by - Donna Cavanaugh)
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
And you, enchantment, Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too, That makes himself, but for our honor therein, Unworthy thee-if ever henceforth thou These rural latches to his entrance open, Or hoop his body more with thy embraces, I will devise a death as cruel for thee As thou art tender to't. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
This extremely violent and depraved act of animal cruelty is particularly disturbing, not only because of the unimaginable suffering this dog was forced to endure, but also because of the implications such cruelty holds for the safety of the community at large. (Quote by - Peter Wood)
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. (Quote by - Pamela Anderson)
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall. (Quote by - Robert Graves)
Anger cannot be destroyed by anger and cruelty by cruelty. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. (Quote by - Raisa M. Gorbachev)
