Human Cruelty Quotes
Collection of top 42 famous quotes about Human Cruelty
Human Cruelty Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Human Cruelty quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.
— Johnny Rich
We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
— Lupita Nyong'o
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
— Michel De Montaigne
To really have that awareness, to be as open as possible, all the time, to beauty and cruelty and stupid human fallibility and unexpected grace.
— Joel Lovell
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
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?
— Jacqueline Carey
It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.
— C.S. Lewis
How do evil people find the strength to do good?
— Keith Hollihan
Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.
— Jodie Foster
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
— Robinson Jeffers
We can never be gods, after all
but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin
but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin
All cruelty comes from weakness, just as all human compassion can come only from strength.
— Peyton Quinn
The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
— Tanith Lee
How can I escape a cage build by man?
— PureDragonWolf
Cruelty didn't have a gender qualifier behind it - it was an ever unraveling human condition, cast out by pride, power, and indifference - and
— Bella Forrest
It seemed hard to believe that human beings could be capable of such cruelty, and in the name of God. Sickened
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
He has seen enough of daily evil to be thankful for small goods that come his way.
— Bernard Pomerance
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
— Andrea Dworkin
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
— Alice Walker
There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn't guard against it, risks being swept away by it.
— Lance Conrad
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
— E. M. Forster
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
I want to study human... madness... cruelty... agression... anger... craziness... and other features... I want to find how far can they get!
— Deyth Banger
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.
— Dean Koontz
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
— Hannibal
Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.
— David Mitchell
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
— Margaret Mead
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
— Victor Hugo
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
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
— Storm Jameson
True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.
— Silje Akselberg Iversen
To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
It's all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings.
— Gillian Flynn