cruelty Quotes

“For man is the cruellest animal.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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“People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”

― Jack London, The Star Rover

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“Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

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“Never . . . be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices . . . and I can always be hopeful of you.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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“When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

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“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to leam, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“It is vain to recount further the catalogue of miseries. In earlier ages such horrors remain unknown because unrecorded. Just enough flickering light plays upon this infernal scene to give us the sense of its utter desolation and hopeless...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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“there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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