All cruelty springs from weakness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
Morarji Desai
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Andrea Dworkin
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
Joan D. Vinge
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.
John Grierson
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Samuel Butler
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Bryant H. McGill
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Robinson Jeffers
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Mason Cooley
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Jodie Foster
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.
Elihu Root
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
Paul Tillich
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot
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