Cruelty Quotes - page 4

Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. View quote
Jane Smiley
When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty. View quote
Katherine Applegate
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution. View quote
Kate Millett
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion. View quote
Adam Rapp
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. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. View quote
Dinah Sheridan
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others. View quote
Edward Irving
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. (Harriet Ann Jacobs)
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty. View quote
John Grierson
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. View quote
Linda Chavez
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of. View quote
Maggie Nelson
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. View quote
Malcolm Turnbull
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. View quote
Mercy Otis Warren
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. View quote
Pete Waterman
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. View quote
Rue McClanahan
To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I shall have to express a very deep conviction: that until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity. View quote
Rachel Carson
The times we live in are alternately derided for their failings and romanticized for their emerging opportunities. It sometimes seems that we now live amid greater violence, greater uncertainty; that the world suffers more conflicts and tragedies; that the poor are poorer and greater in number; that race, ethnicity and nationalism divide us more intractably than ever before. But that is not so. Human beings are still capable of violence and cruelty. We all succumb to sin. But look back at any preceding century or even just a few decades, and you will see cruelty, violence and misery on a scale that is, with few exceptions, unknown today. (John McCain)
Mankind has advanced. Human progress is ceaseless. We can look at Bosnia or Zaire or Rwanda and conclude that building just societies is a fool's errand. We are always, despite our advances, only one sin away from slipping into the abyss of terror and ignorance. But that is not so. Generations upon generations have driven the human race farther and farther from darkness. Past episodes of abominable human cruelty are kept vivid in the memories of succeeding generations. "Never again," is the admonition passed from the survivors of the Holocaust to their descendants and to us all. And although such an important reminder will not always prevent the occurrence of cruelty and violence even at levels approaching genocide, the civilized world is more inclined to organize opposition to such tragedies if not as early as we should, at least sooner than we once would have. View quote
John McCain
The least we desire from the institutions of the free world, and especially the US and the countries of the European Union, is that they appreciate our struggle for freedom. We want them to discharge their responsibilities towards vulnerable people and support them in the face of the cruelty of rulers who continue to kill. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
... the point is, why is there cruelty? Why do people ask other people to do impossible things? why behave this way? why is there mean, when there are better things than mean, love particularly? View quote
Daniel Handler
We are a solid and united nation, which would rather go down to ruin than admit the domination of the Nazis...If the enemy does try to invade this country, we will fight him in the air and on the sea; we will fight him on the beaches with every weapon we have...We shall be fighting...with the conviction that our cause is the cause of humanity and peace against cruelty and wars; a cause that surely has the blessing of Almighty God. View quote
Neville Chamberlain