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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.


Gilbert K. Chesterton

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DONNA CAVANAUGH The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
SUKARNO Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
OSCAR WILDE Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
PAUL TILLICH Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
RICK YANCEY Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an inj...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an inj...
G. K. CHESTERTON Fear is the parent of cruelty.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
FRANK HERBERT Cruelty is the strength of cowards
HAMLET GARCIA there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
HENRI BECQUEREL Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
HENRY BECQUE Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
PHAEDRUS Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain
ANNIE DILLARD We probably deal with animal cruelty cases on a weekly basis, but not animal cruelty of this nature.
BARRY PRUITT Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
Henri Becquerel
ANTOINE HENRI BECQUEREL Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS cruelty is bound on our souls
JAN CHRISTIAN ARNAIZ There is no honor in cruelty.
JOCELYN MURRAY Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.
BRENé BROWN Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.
RAISA M. GORBACHEV To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
MAXIMILIEN DE ROBESPIERRE Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
ADAM SMITH Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.
GEORGE HERBERT One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel
THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
ROBERT BURNS Farewell, fair cruelty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Animal Cruelty is another form of Apartheid but much more deadly...
JAI SINGH Behave with kind with surrendorist, but behave with cruelty with enemy.
NITIN S DHARKAR The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disg...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruel...
GEORGE ELIOT Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.

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LINDA CHAVEZ See what a rent the envious Casca made.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more, The reign of violence is o'er!"
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
WILLIAM COWPER In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connect...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I must be cruel only to be kind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, ga...
ALEXANDER HUME Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...
ROBINSON JEFFERS People in general are cruel to one another. The only way to have fun to them is to make fun of someo...
G. K. CHESTERTON All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
SENECA The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je...
LOUIS XIII He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.
THOMAS HOOD Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZAC Cruelty and fear shake hands together
HONORE DE BALZAC Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
GEORGE ELIOT Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.
TOM HIDDLESTON Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS We are investigating it as an animal cruelty case.
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ANATOLE FRANCE Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
EDWARD YOUNG And you, enchantment, Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too, That makes himself, but for our ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave, And leave the wor...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
MARK TWAIN Cruelty to humans and animals resides in the evilness of man. A godly man will not harm in a cruel w...
NORM TOMLINSON Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...
ROBINSON JEFFERS CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assign...
AMBROSE BIERCE I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what occurs but not recognize the fact.
WILLIAM STAFFORD There was feces at least 3 inches deep throughout house. ... This really moves to a cruelty situatio...
ELAINE GOWER It's the ultimate in hunter cruelty.
HEIDI PRESCOTT Turning animal cruelty into a game is absolutely hideous.
KARIN ROBERTSON Until this moment, Senator, I think I had never gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Have you n...
JOSEPH N. WELCH This is a clear case of animal cruelty. It is a felony to mutilate and kill a domesticated animal. I...
JULIE CURTIS The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening.
JENNIFER CAMPBELL How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
BERTRAND RUSSELL Anger ends in cruelty.
INDIAN PROVERB Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
JOHN BUNYAN Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear
THOMAS FULLER War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
GILBERT PARKER All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness
SENECA All cruelty springs from weakness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA All cruelty springs from weakness.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) All cruelty springs from weakness.
SENECA With winsome cruelty she refuses.
UNKNOWN I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
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DEBASISH MRIDHA Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do.
JUNAID RAZA Deny selfishness. Decry cruelty. Deliver delightfulness.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT Kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty.
SARAH J. MAAS Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
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G. K. CHESTERTON The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristo...
G. K. CHESTERTON Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the...
G. K. CHESTERTON To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believi...
G. K. CHESTERTON Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a m...
G. K. CHESTERTON Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
G. K. CHESTERTON Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, beca...
G. K. CHESTERTON One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTON The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important...
G. K. CHESTERTON What we call personality (...) has become the most impersonal thing in the world. Its pale and featu...
G. K. CHESTERTON The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense...
G. K. CHESTERTON Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our g...
G. K. CHESTERTON The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
G. K. CHESTERTON A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has...
G. K. CHESTERTON Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
G. K. CHESTERTON Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
G. K. CHESTERTON It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
G. K. CHESTERTON O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our peop...
G. K. CHESTERTON We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to ...
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