Cruelty Quotes

• It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.

  

  Nathan Runkle
  • Compassion
  • Cruelty

• Around four o’clock, when our bosses were having tea, the forewoman bumped me with her bony hip. This was a sign that she would take over for fifteen minutes while I went on a break. Every day she gave one of us a break like that. There was no more “reason” for her kindness than for the cruelty of the camp commander who had slapped Trude. It was the individuals who made their own rules in this situation. No one forced them to behave in an unkind manner. The opportunity to act decently toward us was always available to them. Only the tiniest number of them ever used it.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Opportunity
  • Reason
  • Kindness

• The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

  

  Storm Jameson
  • Life
  • Cruelty
  • Gentle

• Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

  

  Noah Richler
  • People
  • Alive
  • Cruelty

• The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Fire
  • Christianity
  • Dresses

• 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
  • Love
  • Mercy
  • Selfishness

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

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Love Is
  • Forces
  • Eternal

• The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Atheism

• Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law.

  

  John Calvin
  • Law
  • Neighbor
  • Cruelty

• If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America - even those designated as 'unlawful enemy combatants.' If you make this exception the whole Constitution crumbles.

  

  Alberto J. Mora
  • Relationship
  • Government
  • Constitution

• The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Cancer
  • Awareness
  • Cruelty

• Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.

  

  Kate Cann
  • Beauty
  • Cruelty

• Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as we pour into all our schools the songs, the poems, and literature of mercy toward these lower creatures, just so soon and so far shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty, but of crime.

  

  George Thorndike Angell
  • Cruelty
  • Advocate
  • Races

• Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Cruelty
  • American Families

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