“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity”
George Eliot
“All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness”
Seneca
“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.
“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”
Bertrand Russell
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness”
Ingrid Holtby
“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim”
Alphonse de Lamartine
