117 Cruelty Quotes for You to Enjoy

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good Silence People Oppression Bad People Good People Cruelty Bad Over Ultimate Tragedy

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. Anne Frank

Day Change Peace Suffering World Better Sky Approaching Will Cruelty Too Everything Wilderness Once Once More One Day Destroy See Slowly Somehow More Shall Thunder Feel Look Return Hear End Up Tranquility Being Transformed Us Millions

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. Henry Rollins

Ignorance Racism Desperation Will Cruelty Society Weakness Brutality Foot Nailed Ground Chained Keep Floor Things Brings

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality. John McCain

Justice Rights Dignity Corruption Reality People Oppression World Liberty Opportunity Hatred Cruelty Longing Human Rights Demand Real Real People Human Experienced The Real World Real World Lived

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out. Willie Nelson

You Ignorance Hurt Cruelty Whatever Back Out All-Out More Knew Forceful Because Than Send Anybody Store Much

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell

Wisdom Fear Cruelty Beginning Superstition Main Main Source Source Sources Conquer

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

War Will Cruelty Sooner Over Reform Trying Use

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation. Sukarno

Human Being Cruelty Isolation Worst Human Inflicted Being

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. Paul Tillich

Cruelty Others Ourselves Towards Also Always

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. Bertrand Russell

Good Cruelty Hell Invented Delight Why Conscience

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. Malcolm Turnbull

Grief Marriage Commitment Adultery Cruelty Few Too Other Gays Neglect Marriages Threat Indifference Name Come Lack Just Form Whether Which Loving Us Many Each Desert Let Us Found Honest

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more. John McCain

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. Maximilien Robespierre

Humanity Cruelty Punish Clemency Oppressors Forgive Them

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. Meir Kahane

Love War Peace Hate Revenge Cruelty Mercy Does Place

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power. Vernon Howard

Strength Personality Dangerous Dictatorship Tyranny Cruelty Power Think Additional Hesitate Characteristics Weaknesses Outcomes Folks Some Somehow Seize Individual Wrong Powerful Because False Disguised Acquired Notion

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. Bryant H. McGill

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs? Kenneth Branagh

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. Alphonse de Lamartine

Animal Cruelty Victim Only Brutality Difference Mankind

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. Bette Midler

Me Cruelty Big Group Pants Parade Scares Join Towards Because Off Often Want Anyone Conformity Prelude Who

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

Cruelty Acceptable Cultural Very Human Might

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. Ken Kesey

Truth Cruelty Mercy

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