What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ..….

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty..

Men are cruel, but Man is kind..

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty..

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals..

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living..

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it..

She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it..

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form..

Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful..

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour..

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy..

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power..

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?.

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one..

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection ….

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ou….

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness..

A good thing can't be cruel..

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo..

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit..