Cruelty Quotes
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When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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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.
Mary Doria Russell
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Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare
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Spurned pity can turn into cruelty just as spurned love turns into hate.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan
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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.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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.
Vivienne Westwood
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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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.
Elizabeth Moon
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
George Bernard Shaw
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The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive. It’s your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it’s all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can’t-do-this, and can’t-do-that’s, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.
Brom
