Quotes of: Cruelty Keyword

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

Wanda

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

Pete Waterman

Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.

Shannon L. Alder

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.

C.S. Lewis

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

Clare Short

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

Erich Fromm

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

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Isaac Asimov

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Jane Smiley

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

The Pledge

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

George Eliot

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

Morarji Desai

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Jean Rostand

Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.

Max Heindel

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Ingrid Newkirk

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

I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.

Archilochus

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900