Quotes about Cruelty
But how practical, how eminently realistic! said Mr. Scogan. In this farm we have a model of sound paternal government. Make them breed, make them work, and when they're past working or breeding or begetting, slaughter them. Farming seems to be mostly indecency and cruelty, said Anne.
- Aldous Huxley
O cruel Truth, is this thine home-coming?
- Euripides
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
- Marquis de Sade
let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.
- Alice Hoffman
In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.
- Shauna Niequist
God permits suffering. He permits injustice. I know your father can be cruel and selfish at times. But there were tender moments in the beginning. He lives with bitter disappointment. He's never learned to count his blessings. If you are to rise above your circumstances.
- Francine Rivers
Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica
- Frank Herbert
The arifa knew the ways to slay ademon and was always chosen 'because he has the wisdom to be ruthless without being cruel', to know when kindness is in fact the way to greater cruelty.
- Frank Herbert
For the opposite of sin is faith and never virtue, and we live in a world which believes that self-control can make us virtuous. But that's not how it works. How many men and women we have encountered, of great personal virtue and moral rectitude, convinced of their own righteousness, who have also been totally insensitive to the needs of others and sometimes downright cruel!
- Madeleine L'Engle
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?BibleProv.xxvii. 4.
- Samuel Johnson
How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.
- John Bevere
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
- John Bunyan