(167 quotes found)
“CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together”
Honore de Balzac
“It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too”
Sigmund Freud
“Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.”
Phaedrus
“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'”
Albert Schweitzer
“Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.”
G. K. Chesterton
“If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress”
William Blake
“History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.”
David C. McCullough
“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
Rabindranath Tagore
