530 Quotes About Cruelty

Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

We have probably all seen teachers who would pick a student up by the scruff of the neck for saying ‘Shit,’ but who would walk by without a word when overhearing that same student taunting a classmate, calling him a ‘fag.’ It is often easier not to intervene — even when there is a clear-cut victim. It’s out in the hall. It isn’t our business. It isn’t our problem.But our inactions, like our actions, define who we are and what are true values are.

Soaring in the heavens, away from all civilization, would allow her the freedom she needed to escape from reality and the gravity of what people thought.

Kindness is braver than cruelty.

Law restrains cruel people, love reforms cruelty.

Only small men parade their learning, talk over their audience and air their superior knowledge. Only brutal men throw their strength about, and vain rich men display their wealth in ostentatious useless luxuries.

Where there is fear, there is no love. Where there is cruelty, there can be no humanity. And where there is hypocrisy, there shall never be divinity.

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.