(167 quotes found)
“Anger ends in cruelty.”
Indian Proverb
“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
“One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel”
Thomas Fowell Buxton
“Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.”
Anna Sewell
“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”
James Anthony Froude
“Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear”
Thomas Fuller
“Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance”
George Bernard Shaw
“To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.”
Isaac Asimov
“In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.”
Hermann Hesse
