“A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the sense, of the joy of the senses, of joy in general is Christian.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness”
Seneca
“War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking”
“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.”
“All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable, grew, blossomed and bore fruit in this one word, Hell”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.”
Boris Pasternak
