best quotations about
Cruelty |
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Quotations
 | 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, 1872-1970, British philosopher 18 likes |
 | All cruelty springs from weakness. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 14 likes |
 | Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 11 likes |
 | A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 10 likes |
 | Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 8 likes |
 | Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty. — Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher 7 likes |
 | I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 7 likes |
 | Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 7 likes |
 | Land ownership is the mother of inequality and cruelty. — Jean Jaures, 1859-1914, French Socialist leader 7 likes |
 | Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 6 likes |
 | Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears. — Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian 4 likes |
 | Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
 | April is the cruellest month. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
 | Off with his head! — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ King Richard III 2 likes |
 | Cruelty comes from fear, weakness, and cowardice. — Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1715-1771, French philosopher 1 likes |
 | Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. |
 | Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. |
 | Beware how you take away hope from any human being. |
 | Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked. |
 | What keeps a man alive? He feeds on others. |
| Why be a man when you can be a success? |
| For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. |
 | Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. |
 | The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
 | When a man is ashamed of himself, he is ruthless to others. |
 | Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. |
 | 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all. |
Latin Quotes
 | Man is wolf to man. Lupus est homo homini. 26 likes |
