quotations about cruelty
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Stray Birds
The man or boy who will be cruel to the tiniest of God's creatures, cannot be trusted to be tender even to his sister or his child; but he whose large brave heart cares for the feeblest, is always ready to help and comfort any who may need his aid and sympathy.
JULIA A. MATHEWS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Create new atrocities
Invent more cruelties
Wallow in your humanity
Draw your ignorance from your
Scabbard (and) forward to the new millennium
MALEFACTION
"Ensure Bloodlust Prospers", Crush the Dream
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
HUGH BLAIR
The Beauties of Blair
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
Short Studies on Great Subjects
I must be cruel, only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
How long will it take the calloused hearts of men before the scars of hatred and cruelty shall be removed?
CLARENCE DARROW
Attorney for the Damned
We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit Is Rich
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
MONTAIGNE
"Of Cruelty,", Essays
It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal.
MARCEL THEROUX
MARCEL THEROUX
Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
"The Primitive Passing,", Autobiography of Values
Some cruel people do not feel pleasure in making others suffer. Indeed, they seem not to feel anything. Their cruelty is manifested by a lack of what is judged appropriate feeling, as pity or mercy, for the plight of the individual whose suffering they cause ... as if they were unaware of it or failed to appreciate it as suffering, in the way that, for example, lions appear to be unaware of, and thus are not sensitive to, the pain they cause their prey.
TOM REGAN
The Case for Animal Rights
Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
WILLIAM COWPER
The Task
Work and slave and skimp and save
And you can buy yourself a bigger cage
And a thousand little cruelties we agree to pretend to ignore.
QUASI
"Sea Shanty"
When the cruel fall into the hands of the cruel, we read their fate with horror, not with pity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
All cruelty springs from weakness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
Morals
Cruelty is the first attribute of the devil.
NANI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
THOMAS HARDY
Jude the Obscure
You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.
MARIE LU
The Midnight Star