Cruelty Quotes

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Pope John Paul II

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Marquis de Sade

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Rue McClanahan

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Frederick Douglas

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Joseph Conrad

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

William Shakespeare, Henry V

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Raisa M. Gorbachev

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell