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It's much easier to be cruel than one might think. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity. — Clarence Darrow

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

He's always with me, he and all his beauty and his cruelty. — Dorothy Parker

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. — Adam Smith

It is something about having absolute power over another being that drives men to incomprehensible acts of cruelty. — Mark Tufo

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. — Theodor W. Adorno

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

The business of love is
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams

Words can be as deadly as bullets. But bullets are faster acting. ~ Brandon Hull — Jayden Hunter

There is no end to the cruelty of men threatened by strong women." - Mr. Nancy — Neil Gaiman

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other. — Belinda Jeffrey

What is it the Bible teaches us?
rapine, cruelty, and murder. — Thomas Paine

The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor. — Bryant McGill

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal. — Anthony Daniels

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution. — Mao Zedong

Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh. — Richard House

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew. — A. Esquivel

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. — Meir Kahane

Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce. — Geraldine Brooks

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people. — Alice Walker

Hitler's cave was much more than a wine cellar; it was a symbol of cruelty and greed, of Nazi Germany's hunger for wealth and riches. — Don Kladstrup

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination, — Antonin Artaud

I want to study human... madness... cruelty... agression... anger... craziness... and other features... I want to find how far can they get! — Deyth Banger

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me. — Veronica Roth

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. — Bertrand Russell

I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice. — Neal Shusterman

It is inhuman to humanize animals;
it is like raising a child in a cage. — Joey Lawsin

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us? — Soledad O'Brien

Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

In spite of all the tragedy and cruelty, all humans have a kind heart, great spirit, and an insatiable love for the humanity. — Debasish Mridha

If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty. — Paul Hoffman

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. — Josephine Baker

Nature was as full of cruelty as of beauty, he knew all too well. — Nora Roberts

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain. — Annie Dillard

Despite its cruelty, I want to know life. — Lauren DeStefano

had always been like that - incapable of withholding the truth but incapable of cruelty. A rare kind of person. The best kind of friend. — Renee Ahdieh

You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty. — Gloria Naylor

Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless. — David Mitchell

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. — Hannibal

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them. — Veronica Roth

Better the cruelty of family than loving neglect that leaves a child unready for a savage universe. — Morgan Blayde

Children are remarkably cruel in their candor. In their cruelty, they are innocent — Rose Christo

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. — Bertrand Russell

You mistake purpose for cruelty, and I have always had a purpose. I am not mindless. — Anthony Ryan

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself. — L.M. Montgomery

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. — Jodie Foster

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest. — Philip Sidney

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. — Idries Shah

Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more? — Marian Keyes

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. — Laura Miller

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.' — Ann Aguirre

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. — Philip Sidney

He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race. — Alice Hoffman

Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell. — Francois Mauriac

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. — William E. Gladstone

Truth without compassion is Cruelty. — Antero Alli

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Macbeth — William Shakespeare

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others. — Cesar Chavez

It is impossible to found a civilisation on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure. — George Orwell

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

The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake

There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters. — M.F. Moonzajer

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner — William Shakespeare

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. — Frank Herbert

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. — Archilochus

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. — Angelina Jolie

Cruelty never helped the turning of the world. — Patrick Rothfuss

Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil. — Mark T. Barnes

It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals. — Barack Obama

Our struggle against violence and cruelty is only treating the symptoms of a disease, not curing it. You are the cure. — Veronica Roth

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. — Heinrich Himmler

People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Men like that - when they know they won't be found out - they will do anything. — Michelle Paver

It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life. — Doreen Orion

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy. — David Chase

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

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions. — Jon Wynne-Tyson

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. — J. William Fulbright

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. — Fritz Lang

If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so. — Rachel L. Demeter

Cruelties should be committed all at once. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not. — Federico Chini

In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together. — Peter Schmeichel

You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others. — Marie Lu

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind. — Veronica Roth

I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul. — Douglas Preston

Cruelty is the only sin. — Ellen Glasgow

A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind. — Shannon L. Alder

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. — Pamela Anderson

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. — Maximilien De Robespierre

The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment. — Thomas Hardy

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? — Johnny Rich