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Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Author: Robert Burns
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.]
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
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Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. III, l. 326)
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It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives.
Author: Thomas Hood
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.
Author: Alexander Hume
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!"
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.]
Author: Louis XIII
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.]
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
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.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. II)
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I must be cruel only to be kind.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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See what a rent the envious Casca made.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at IV, iv)
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Inhumanity is caught from man,
From smiling man.
Author: Edward Young
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.
Author: Thomas Fowell Buxton
Source: None
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Author: Honore De Balzac
Source: None
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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.
Author: Robinson Jeffers
Source: None
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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
Author: Robert Burns
Source: None
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All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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