Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
There is no beast more cruel than man.
Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a sense of satisfaction as she realized that they would eat well today. Amazing how an empty belly could change your perspective, she thought.
I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury. My husband and I are very mindful of what we eat and what we wear. I don't visit places that exploit animals or buy things that are derived from cruelty. I'm sure I'm not perfect, but I make a conscious effort to do no harm and always support people, places, or things that are on the up-and-up.
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.
Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.
Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty. . . is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
The America that never cared or felt guilty about portraying us as undignified people on their television screen, or in some old history book that never stated truthfully the facts of our invasion or the cruelty we had to endure for generations.