Quotes on Cruelty

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

Author: Pamela Anderson

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Author: Linda Chavez

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

Author: Morarji Desai

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Author: George Eliot

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Author: Jodie Foster

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

Author: John Grierson

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Author: Harriet Jacobs

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Author: Alphonse Lamartine

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Author: James Lowell

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Author: Rue McClanahan

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

Author: Soledad O'Brien

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Author: Pope Paul II

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

Author: Phaedrus

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Author: Maximilien Robespierre

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Author: Lucius Seneca

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Author: William Shakespeare

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Author: George Shaw

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

Author: Dinah Sheridan

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Author: Clare Short

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Author: Paul Tillich