quotations about cruelty
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
When the cruel fall into the hands of the cruel, we read their fate with horror, not with pity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Inhumanity is caught from man,
From smiling man.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.
BRENE BROWN
The Gifts of Imperfection
Each single day has just enough cruelty within
To make them perfect and right
Each single day has just enough dark, deep within
To make it perfect and light
JACK BRUCE
"Milonga Too", More Jack Than God
The Angel of mercy stoppeth not to comfort, but passeth by on the other side, and hath no tear to shed when the cruel man is damned.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
"Of Cruelty to Animals,", Poems of King Alfred
Each snivelling hero seas of blood can spill,
When wrongs provoke and honour bids him kill;
Give me your through-paced rogue, who scorns to be
Prompted by poor revenge, or injury,
But does it of true inbred cruelty.
JOHN OLDHAM
On the Jesuits
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Sceptical Essays
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
THOMAS HARDY
Jude the Obscure
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.
LODOVICO ARIOSTO
Orlando Furioso
Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin.
G.K. CHESTERTON
All Things Considered
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish