Top 25 Cruelty Quotes of 125

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

River Phoenix

Planets, Cruelty, Creatures

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

Jacqueline Carey

Pity, Cruelty, Casts

Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

David Hume

Revenge, Praise, Cruelty

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Rabindranath Tagore

Animal, Men, Animal Cruelty

Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.41, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

Martin Amis

Style, Fixed, Cruelty

Martin Amis (1991). “Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence”, Vintage

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Henry Becque

Art, Cruelty, Timely

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Robinson Jeffers

Human Nature, Cruelty, Humans

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

Alice Walker

Compassion, Balance, Cruelty

Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

T. S. Eliot

Love, Cruelty

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

Animal, Bystanders, Cruelty

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

Voltairine de Cleyre

Prevention, Cruelty

Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.233, SUNY Press

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Community, Literature, Cruelty

Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.234, Prestwick House Inc

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

Pamela Anderson

Kentucky, States, Cruelty

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Leon Trotsky

Struggle, Serious, Cruelty

Leon Trotsky (1980). “The History of the Russian Revolution”, Anchor Foundation

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Thomas Paine

Murder, Founding Fathers Religion, Cruelty

Thomas Paine (1995). “Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)”, p.822, Library of America

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

Ian Somerhalder

Animal, Demonstration, Cruelty

"Q&A With Actor and Activist Ian Somerhalder ( Lost, The Vampire Diaries ) on Social Change and Animal Rights". Quora Interveiw, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2013.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

Cesar Chavez

Animal, Cruelty, Live Well

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Robert Jordan

Land, Laughing, Cruelty

Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.193, Macmillan

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Rabindranath Tagore

Kindness, Men, Cruelty

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.421, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Ingrid Newkirk

Silent, Cruelty, Tyranny

"Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

Bertrand Russell

World, Cruelty, Endure

Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.411, Open Court Publishing