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Cruelty  Quotes
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

—Jonathan Safran

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CrueltyKindness
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Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

—Nalini Singh

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In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is...

—Ruth Harrison

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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

—Susan Sontag

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CrueltyHumanityMankind
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Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.

—Shannon L. Alder

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You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue…

—Steven Erikson

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Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.

—Amit Kalantri

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It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel...

—Christopher Hitchens

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The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness – and love. Books loved anyone who...

—Cornelia Funke

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Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued.

—Keisha Keenleyside

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(…) ograniczenie umysłowe i okrucieństwo ludzkie nie zna granic.

—Olga Tokarczuk

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CrueltyNarrowmindednessPeople
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Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you’re oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That’s why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty...

—Nenia Campbell

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CrueltyDictatorshipsHelplessness
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All cruelty springs from weakness.

—Seneca

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Never love someone beneath your level of evolution. If you want a monkey, you can visit one at your local zoo.

—Shannon L. Alder

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Be leery of silence. It doesn’t mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.

—Shannon L. Alder

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The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human...

—Ashley Montagu

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

—George Bernard

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CrueltyIronyMalicious
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

—Harriet Ann

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I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty toward her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years in my helpless memory, the skin growing around; what else can memory do?...

—Lorrie Moore

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CrueltyMemory
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The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of awareness to mark the boundary line.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it...

—Thomas Paine

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You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part – a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty...

—Robert Cormier

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I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

—William Shakespeare

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CrueltyKindness
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There is a certain beauty in our intrinsic human cruelty.

—youssef

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CrueltyHuman
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The only thing crueler than a cage sosmall that a bird can’t fly is a cage solarge that a bird thinks it can fly.

—Caroline Kepnes

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CrueltyFreedom
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Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

—Brené Brown

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No, it really isn’t, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn’t fair. I had to watch the parents of a way too young girl realize...

—Jay Crownover

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It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel...

—Jean Genet

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CrueltyJean-GenetThief
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If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war....

—Jonathan Safran

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I didn’t want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that’s the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not...

—Karen Joy

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CrueltyExperimentationPsychology
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Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make...

—Pauline Réage

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The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced. He has been...

—Robert G.

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But man, proud man,Dress’d in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d—His glassy essence—like an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all...

—William Shakespeare

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CrueltyWar
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Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take...

—Steven James

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ChainCrueltyFreedom
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is...

—Carson McCullers

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People who use snark attacks confuse cleverness with cruelty.

—Debra Crown

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But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don’t recognize that, then that’s the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else’s fate to some...

—Malcolm Bradbury

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And for Peter… well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there’s a limit to what you can get away with.

—Mike Carey

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CrueltyLifePain
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Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.

—Nenia Campbell

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Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.

—Sujata Massey

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CrueltyTolerance
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The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.

—Shannon L. Alder

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The important thing isn’t what other people think you are; it’s who you are.

—Shannon L. Alder

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…perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

—Anne Perry

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CrueltyMoralitySelfishness
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All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities–even merely with the...

—Ford Madox

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AngerCrueltyPower
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Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They reflected what was probably the most urgent truth operating in me...

—George Saunders

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CrueltyGoing-WrongSelf
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The cruelest countries have the most laws.

—Marty Rubin

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CrueltyLawsNations
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Just because you have stolen someone’s heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn’t give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

—Thomas Paine

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Also, I’m angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

—Stephen King

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

—Vasily Grossman

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