Cruelty Quotes
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The song is sort of a study in unconscious cruelty. But everybody seems more concerned with what was thrown off the bridge than they are with the thoughtlessness of people expressed in the song.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
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When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.
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Farewell, fair cruelty.
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Spurned pity can turn into cruelty just as spurned love turns into hate.
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.
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Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
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History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
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I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
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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.
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What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.
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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
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The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.
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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.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
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There are no acceptable reasons for abuse or cruelty to any living being. None.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
