“Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.”
Frank Herbert
“All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness”
Seneca
“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.”
Jodie Foster
“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”
Alice Hoffman (The Fortelling)
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
