Cruelty Quotes - Page 2

• Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Ignorant, Would Be

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

  Jodie Foster

  Might, Truthful, Humans

  Jodie Foster's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 29, 1989.

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• I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

  Jasmine Guy

  Men, Long, People

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• The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Lovable, Haitian

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• Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Animal, Differences, Brutality

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• My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Music, Stupid, Simple

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

  Pope John Paul II

  Death, Catholic, Dying

  "Pope John Paul Assails 'Free Love' in Poland". www.nytimes.com. June 05, 1991.

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• I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

  Ali MacGraw

  Animal, Levels, Touched

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• Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

  Jean Rostand

  Faith, Stupid, Vanity

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• With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

  Kate Millett

  Names, Firsts, Revolution

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.506, University of Illinois Press

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• I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

  Dinah Sheridan

  Divorce, Years, England

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• I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

  Clare Short

  Thinking, Iraq, Suffering

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• One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Animal, Bystanders, Ill

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• In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

  Rowan Williams

  God, Kindness, Encounters

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• It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

  Ilka Chase

  Religious, Atheist, Men

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• Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

  John Grierson

  Drama, Exotic, Earth

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• All just laws condemn cruelty.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Law

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• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

  Albert Schweitzer

  Memories, Men, Animal

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• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Strong, Philosophical, Animal

  "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.

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• I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

  George Thorndike Angell

  Time, Kindness, Animal

  George Thorndike Angell (1884). “Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections”

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• This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger again and didn't mind where that was. It's a cruel world, don't you think?' Meggie went on. 'Mo often told me I forget how cruel it is too easily.' With his burned fingers, Farid stroke her fair hair. It shone even in the dark. 'They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dark, Thinking, Hair

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.497, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Character, Two

  Hermann Hesse (1961). “Der Steppenwolf”, Henry Holt & Company

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• We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

  William E. Gladstone

  Years, History, Stupidity

  In Margot Asquith 'More Memories' (1933) ch. 8

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  War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Death, Military, War

  "The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.

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

  William Cowper

  Sports, Pain, Hunting

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 326 (on hunting)

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