Cruelty Quotes


Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. Robinson Jeffers Cruelty 132
Farewell, fair cruelty. William Shakespeare Cruelty 111
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. Rue McClanahan Cruelty 107
10 percent of any population is cruel no matter what and 10 percent is merciful no matter what and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. Susan Sontag Cruelty 101
True beauty is something that attacks overpowers robs and finally destroys. Yukio Mishima Cruelty 95
I dont believe in the concept of hell but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. Gary Larson Cruelty 84
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. Anna Sewell Cruelty 83
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. Dinah Sheridan Cruelty 82
Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion and the one thing in which I have never ever been guilty. Tennessee Williams Cruelty 82
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. Tom Stoppard Cruelty 79
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion in the only guarantee of morality. Arthur Schopenhauer Cruelty 57
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. Gilbert Parker Cruelty 51
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. William Tecumseh Sherman Cruelty 49
A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. Samuel Johnson Cruelty 48
I must be cruel only to be kind Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. William Shakespeare Cruelty 48
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. H. L. Mencken Cruelty 45
April is the cruelest month breeding lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot Cruelty 40
In a cruel land you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. Robert Jordan Cruelty 38
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. Blanche Dubois Tennessee Williams Cruelty 36
I never even for a moment doubted what theyd told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can unwittingly be cruel they cannot imagine doubts complete absence. They have forgotten. David Foster Wallace Cruelty 35
We can never be gods after allbut we can become something less than human with frightening ease. N.K. Jemisin Cruelty 31
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. Arthur Schopenhauer Cruelty 29

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