It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.
Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.
The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.
Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.
Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
A good thing can't be cruel.
Cruelty. . . prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.
The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older. . . It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position.