One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.
Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.
Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.
All just laws condemn cruelty.
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.
The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.
Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.
The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.