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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.
I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.
Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.
I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
Any reports of animal cruelty should be thoroughly investigated and those operators held accountable.
I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.
'I'm a Celebrity' is not my cup of tea whatsoever. I don't like the animal cruelty in it, to be honest.
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)
Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.