Quotes about Cruelty

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D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers. — Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours. — Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day. The old old story. — Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth
Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We always say that we c — C. JoyBell C.
Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be — Craig D. Lounsbrough
Start your future with an act of cruelty and continue your life carrying it in your soul — Sameh Elsayed
Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight. — Shannon L. Alder
To be naive is to be unaware of how stupid and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the — Criss Jami, Healology
There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting v — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The ve — Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking
Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and — Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. — Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 — Susan Sontag
How can I escape a cage build by man? — PureDragonWolf
The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural worl — Paul Watson
There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orders, instructions, du — Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelt — Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call — John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began