Cruelty Quotes

• 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 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

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

  

  Storm Jameson
  • Life
  • Cruelty
  • Gentle

• I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • People
  • Today
  • Community

• 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

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

  

  Nathan Runkle
  • Compassion
  • 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

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

  

  John Calvin
  • Law
  • Neighbor
  • Cruelty

• 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

• Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.

  

  Kate Cann
  • Beauty
  • Cruelty

• 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 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

• 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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