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Cruelty Quotes - Page 5

There is no beast more cruel than man.

There is no beast more cruel than man.

Leonid Andreyev
Men, Beast, Cruelty
Leonid Andreyev (1914). “Savva: The Life of Man; Two Plays”

She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

Kristin Cashore
Admiration, Cruelty
Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.

Kate Cann
Beautiful, Cruelty
Kate Cann (2011). “Possessed”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Hands, Philosopher, Cruelty
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2010.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Jon Anderson
Secret, Cruelty, Poetry Is

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

Jodie Foster
Might, Cruelty, Humans

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

Jenny Holzer
Kindness, Cruelty
Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

Jeanette Winterson
Love Is, Paradise, Cruelty
Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.33, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Ian Mcewan
Imagination, Cruelty
Interview with Zadie Smith, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

Haruo Shirane
Life, Cruelty, Turns
Haruo Shirane (2013). “Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900”, p.898, Columbia University Press

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

George Meyer
Arbitrary, Shock, Cruelty
Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

George Herbert
Pain, Cruelty, Ifs
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.370

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

Eula Biss
Believe, Cruelty
"No-Man’s-Land" by Eula Biss, www.believermag.com. February 2008.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

Ellen Glasgow
Believe, Sin, Cruelty
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.231, University of Virginia Press

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

Ellen Glasgow
People, Taught, Cruelty
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

Elie Wiesel
Games, Innocent, Cruelty
Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.44, Schocken

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Men, Numbers, Cruelty

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

Desmond Tutu
People, Able, Cruelty
Source: theislamicmonthly.com

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

David Clement-Davies
Animal, Men, Cruelty

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

D. H. Lawrence
Long, Cruelty, Belonging
"Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

Cassia Leo
Humanity, Reason, Cruelty
Cassia Leo (2014). “Black Box”, p.17, Random House

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

Bertrand Russell
Perfection, Cruelty, Whole
Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.467, Routledge

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

Bertrand Russell
Opinion, Inspired, Cruelty
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.144, Routledge

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

Anthony Daniels
Spring, Cruelty, Eternal

Truth without compassion is Cruelty.

Antero Alli
Love, Compassion, Cruelty

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