Quotes of: Cruelty Keyword

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Robinson Jeffers

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

Edward Irving

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Angelina Jolie

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Anna Sewell

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

William E. Gladstone

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

The Complete Essays

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

A Crown of Swords

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be, Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly; - 153 -

Devi Mahatmayam in English Rhyme

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

A Happy Death

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

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Archangel's Kiss

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The Age of Reason

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

Kushiel's Chosen

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

A Lion Among Men

Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific.

Mind In Chains

When we see too many battlefields, it breaks something inside of a person and they lose the ability to distinguish between cruelty and necessity.

A Taste of Winter

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

The Wisdom of W.E.B. DuBois

empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

Jillian Lauren

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

Kelly Miller