Cruelty Quotes
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Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!
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An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
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Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.
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Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.
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It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
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The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.
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Socialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.
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Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
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Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.
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Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.
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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
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You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.
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If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty.
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As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury.
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Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.
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In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.
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Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?
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Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.
