530 Quotes About Cruelty

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on.

En toda guerra el odio da lugar a más odio, la crueldad es correspondida con más crueldad y llega un momento en el que es difícil decir cuándo empezó la vorágine del «ojo por ojo», y calcular si uno de los dos bandos ha infligido más sufrimiento que el otro.

I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening to the wind in the palm trees outside our window, believing in our thick dreams that we are capable of nothing cruel.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

The modeling world – and the world at large – is a pretty cruel place. It’s up to you to decide whether or not that turns you into a cruel person as well. Are you going to be mean and selfish because some of the people around you are, or are you going to overcome that and walk away a decent human being? The world gives you every reason in the book to become callous. It’s your job not to become that way as well.

If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.