cruelty quotes

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

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

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

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.

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.

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.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

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

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.