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Tag Name "Cruelty" (472)

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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Robinson Jeffers
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
Tacitus
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Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan
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Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller
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Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.
Samael Aun Weor
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cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.
Rae Foley
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
Walter Savage Landor
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Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
Walter Savage Landor
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
Veronica Roth
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw
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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
Elisabeth Elliot
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
Khaled Hosseini
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
Ellen Glasgow
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Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.
Jodie Foster
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cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.
Immanuel Kant
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Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.
Annie Dillard
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.
Alexander von Humboldt
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
Antonin Artaud
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Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
Ali MacGraw
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.
Rose Macaulay
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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
Bertrand Russell
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Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
Rick Yancey
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