World Cruelty Quotes

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?
It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it. — John Boyne

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. — Albert Einstein

At times I feel such unbearable sadness . . . For a world with so much beauty, there is just so much cruelty." She — M.A. Larson

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world. — Jack London

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

The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive? — Arthur Golden

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel. — Frederick Lenz

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world. — Juliet Stevenson

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder. — Reynolds Price

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world. — Marianne Williamson

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

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty. — Neil Gaiman

It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain. — Upton Sinclair

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses! — Michael Chabon

There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language. — Colum McCann

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. — Elisabeth Elliot

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

He was like my compass everytime I found myself lost, because of the cruelty of the world around me. — Teresa May B. Bandiola

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

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality. — Khaled Hosseini

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

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

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy. — Zadie Smith

In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue — Munia Khan

I've made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery. — Jeff Zentner

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

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? — Bertrand Russell

Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do. — Dan Pearce

He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house. — Pawan Mishra

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. — Tanith Lee

In a world full of cruelty and hatred, be loving and kind so that you may transform the perception of life. — Debasish Mridha

Frailty and cruelty are our gifts to the world. Who is to say that suffering is not the greatest of all gifts from the gods? — Douglas Clegg

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme. — Nikolai Berdyaev

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

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. — Elizabeth Bowen

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