(162 quotes found)
“All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness”
Seneca
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell
“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”
“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.
“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity”
George Eliot
“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.”
Heinrich Himmler
“Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears”
Publilius Syrus
“War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.”
Raisa M. Gorbachev
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