quotations about cruelty
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
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Stray Birds
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
HUGH BLAIR
The Beauties of Blair
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
Short Studies on Great Subjects
I must be cruel, only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Create new atrocities
Invent more cruelties
Wallow in your humanity
Draw your ignorance from your
Scabbard (and) forward to the new millennium
MALEFACTION
"Ensure Bloodlust Prospers", Crush the Dream
The man or boy who will be cruel to the tiniest of God's creatures, cannot be trusted to be tender even to his sister or his child; but he whose large brave heart cares for the feeblest, is always ready to help and comfort any who may need his aid and sympathy.
JULIA A. MATHEWS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Work and slave and skimp and save
And you can buy yourself a bigger cage
And a thousand little cruelties we agree to pretend to ignore.
QUASI
"Sea Shanty"
How long will it take the calloused hearts of men before the scars of hatred and cruelty shall be removed?
CLARENCE DARROW
Attorney for the Damned
We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit Is Rich
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
All cruelty springs from weakness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
Morals
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
It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal.
MARCEL THEROUX
MARCEL THEROUX
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
MONTAIGNE
"Of Cruelty,", Essays
Cruelty is the first attribute of the devil.
NANI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands do likewise.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
"The Primitive Passing,", Autobiography of Values
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
Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
WILLIAM COWPER
The Task
Inhumanity is caught from man,
From smiling man.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts