530 Quotes About Cruelty

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

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

I was so raw from repeated exposure to cruelty that now even the most minor abrasions left a mark.

...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn’t.

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?