CRUELTY QUOTES III

quotations about cruelty

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Stray Birds


The man or boy who will be cruel to the tiniest of God's creatures, cannot be trusted to be tender even to his sister or his child; but he whose large brave heart cares for the feeblest, is always ready to help and comfort any who may need his aid and sympathy.

JULIA A. MATHEWS

attributed, Day's Collacon


We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

HUGH BLAIR

The Beauties of Blair


Create new atrocities
Invent more cruelties
Wallow in your humanity
Draw your ignorance from your
Scabbard (and) forward to the new millennium

MALEFACTION

"Ensure Bloodlust Prospers", Crush the Dream


Fear is the parent of cruelty.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

Short Studies on Great Subjects


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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet


How long will it take the calloused hearts of men before the scars of hatred and cruelty shall be removed?

CLARENCE DARROW

Attorney for the Damned


We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit Is Rich


All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore


Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

MONTAIGNE

"Of Cruelty,", Essays


It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal.

MARCEL THEROUX

MARCEL THEROUX


Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

"The Primitive Passing,", Autobiography of Values


Some cruel people do not feel pleasure in making others suffer. Indeed, they seem not to feel anything. Their cruelty is manifested by a lack of what is judged appropriate feeling, as pity or mercy, for the plight of the individual whose suffering they cause ... as if they were unaware of it or failed to appreciate it as suffering, in the way that, for example, lions appear to be unaware of, and thus are not sensitive to, the pain they cause their prey.

TOM REGAN

The Case for Animal Rights


Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task


Work and slave and skimp and save
And you can buy yourself a bigger cage
And a thousand little cruelties we agree to pretend to ignore.

QUASI

"Sea Shanty"


When the cruel fall into the hands of the cruel, we read their fate with horror, not with pity.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


All cruelty springs from weakness.

LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

Morals


Cruelty is the first attribute of the devil.

NANI

attributed, Day's Collacon


You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.

MARIE LU

The Midnight Star


Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

THOMAS HARDY

Jude the Obscure