cruelty Quotes

“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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“the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

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“Moreover, when our hearts are authentically open to universal communion, this sense of fraternity excludes nothing and no one. It follows that our indifference or cruelty towards fellow creatures of this world sooner or later affects the...”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

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“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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“It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it; but not upon such as thou.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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“The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment, and it was mighty in Clare now.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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