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

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman

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

Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens. — Russell Simmons

A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he's never given an opportunity to show what he's made of, no one will remember him when he dies. — Xenophon

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. — Thomas Fuller

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

He's ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times. — R.D. Ronald

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

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

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

I've learned that in many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness. — Shauna Niequist

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love. — T. S. Eliot

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. — K.A. Applegate

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

But he was not hers; he was not anybody's. Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and push away. — Cassandra Clare

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

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. — C.S. Lewis

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

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me — Jacqueline Carey

Their attitude seemed to result from incomprehension rather than cruelty, but as Tolstoy would have said, what's the difference in the end? — Atul Gawande

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

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals — George Bernard Shaw

It's ironic that it was not until I lost my hearing that I finally found my voice. Sign language saved my soul. — Rosie Malezer

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey! — Alicia Silverstone

Cruelty of any kind is unforgivable . That's why there is no point at all in being creek in half-measure. — Michael Dobbs

When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops. — Joyce Rachelle

It's not just about being against cruelty. It's about being for compassion. — Nathan Runkle

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men's souls which is only released when they have other men in their power. — Morgan Llywelyn

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness. — Glen Duncan

If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough. — Victor LaValle

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It's all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings. — Gillian Flynn

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay

Never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty. — Edna O'Brien

Until you have stood in another woman's stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in. — Shannon L. Alder

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity. — Alfred Jarry

It's so easy to get mired in the all too obvious cruelty of the world. It's natural. But to really heal, we need to recognize the goodness too. — Louise Penny

Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty. — Osho

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it. — Cassandra Clare

I say it's better to take a chance on the possibility of kindness than endure the certainty of cruelty. — Courtney Schafer

Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness. — Amy Engel

It's the worst kind of cruelty - the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it. — L.M. Montgomery

Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something's getting hurt. It — Jodi Picoult

There is no redemption in a cruel man's love. — Nenia Campbell

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. — Assata Shakur

It's comforting to me," he added, "that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor. — Keith Hollihan

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ... — John Geddes

He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty. — Margaret Way

It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you. — April Genevieve Tucholke

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice. — C.S. Lewis

We are a mirror to show god it's cruelty. — Steve Aylett

He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel. — Shannon A. Thompson

That's the way it will go because that's how the left wins: through intimidation and cruelty. You — Ben Shapiro

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect. — Cheri Huber

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

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

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

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

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

...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt — Stephen King

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty — Shashi Deshpande

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention. — Ingrid Newkirk

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. - — Anna Sewell

You're gorgeous, Gabriel. You always were, you know."
"Nature's cruelty - the fallen angel retains his beauty. But I'm ugly on the inside. — Sylvain Reynard

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

Cruelty lacks pleasure when it's directed at you, doesn't it? — Sarah MacLean

I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all. — Elizabeth Moon

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

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

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty. — Emile Zola

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

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

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

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

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