Cruelty Quotes - Page 3
there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
Truman Capote (1996). “A Christmas memory: One Christmas ;& The Thanksgiving visitor”, Random House, Inc.
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.39, A&C Black
Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.186
Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.144, Macmillan
Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin
Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.323, Souvenir Press
Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.12, A&C Black
Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.47, Penguin UK
The Pilgrim's Progress pt. 1 (1678)
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3686, e-artnow
Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.
Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
Margarita Engle (2009). “Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba”, p.158, Macmillan
Junius (1807). “Junius: Stat nominis umbra”, p.141
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
Joseph O'Connor, Random House UK (2004). “Star of the Sea”, p.381, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
1958 The Zoo Story.
Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.59
Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War”, p.195, Macmillan
