Quotes about Cruelty

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

Everybody has a mean streak in them, don't they?

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

In this world, few people look with the eyes of compassion, and so we are cruel and merciless toward each other. The weak are always oppressed by the strong.

Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.

Cruelty is the only sin.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.

Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so cruel, that unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, or rights, or the goodwill of others, only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.