| 33 Cruelty Quotes
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“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
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“Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears”
Publilius Syrus Quotes |
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“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity”
George Eliot Quotes |
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“Cruelty and fear shake hands together”
Honore de Balzac Quotes |
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“People in general are cruel to one another. The only way to have fun to them is to make fun of someone. I hate that. Why can't someone be different.why can't someone be themselves without being made fun of? I hate society because of how they judge pe”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
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“One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel”
Thomas Fowell Buxton Quotes |
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“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
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“In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
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“Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us”
Robinson Jeffers Quotes |
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“Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
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“It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.
[Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et
humanite d'estre cruel.]”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
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“Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, l. 326)
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“It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives.”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: Song of the Shirt
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“Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the
sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.”
Alexander Hume Quotes Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. LXII)
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“An angel with a trumpet said,
"Forever more, forever more,
The reign of violence is o'er!"”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: The Occultation of Orion (st. 6)
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“I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now
making on the scaffold.
[Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure
sur cet echafaud.]”
Louis XIII Quotes Source: see "Historie de Louis XIII", IV, p. 416
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“He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.
[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes Source: Pharsalia (I, 150)
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“The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the
bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. II)
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“I must be cruel only to be kind.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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“See what a rent the envious Casca made.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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“Men so noble,
However faulty, yet should find respect
For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty
To load a falling man.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Cromwell at V, iii)
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“Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive
If you will these graces to the grave,
And leave the world no copy.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at I, v)
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“And you, enchantment,
Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too,
That makes himself, but for our honor therein,
Unworthy thee-if ever henceforth thou
These rural latches to his entrance open,
Or hoop his body more with thy embraces,
I will devise a death as cruel for thee
As thou art tender to't.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at IV, iv)
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“Inhumanity is caught from man,
From smiling man.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night V, l. 158)
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“One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.”
Thomas Fowell Buxton Quotes |
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