Quotes about Cruelty

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April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spr — T. S. Eliot
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal. — Rabindranath Tagore
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion. — Niccolo Machiavelli
God bears with the wicked but not forever. — Cervantes
Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes. — George, Lord Halifax
All cruelty springs from weakness. — Seneca
I must be cruel Only to be kind. — William Shakespeare
We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation. — La Rochefoucauld
When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered. — W. H. Auden
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - bu — T. S. Eliot
We all have flaws and mine is being wicked. — James Thurber
Why inflict pain on oneself when so many others are ready to save us the trouble? — George W. Pacaud
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. — William Tecumseh Sherman
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity see — William Tecumseh Sherman
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. — Gilbert Parker
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. — Robinson Jeffers
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. — Ken Kesey