It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty
If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.
Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares.
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.