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Cruelty Quotes

He has no principles…The change of stories, the lack of preparation, the lying…He doesn’t read…It’s the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel…he got into University of Pennsylvania because he had somebody take the exams, SATs of whatever…Donald is out for Donald, period…You can’t trust him.

– Maryanne Trump Barry

Donald’s Trump’s sister talking about her brother. Recorded by Trump’s niece Mary Trump.

Going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted with vicious cruelty. Going high means taking the higher path, it means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top. Going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation under God, and if we want to survive, we’ve got to find a way to live together and work together across our differences

– Michelle Obama

As for the dogs, when they grow old and toothless, Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 1. Old Major on how the cruel Mr. Jones drowns the dogs when they grow old instead of looking after them.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

– Harriet Ann Jacobs

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable.

– Jodie Foster

I couldn’t watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

– Julie Walters

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

– J. William Fulbright

We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings – when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

– Ingrid Betancourt

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

– Ali MacGraw

People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in ‘Enclave.’

– Ann Aguirre

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.

– Aldous Huxley

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

– Elihu Root

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

– Gilbert Parker

We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.

– Ephraim Mirvis

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

– George Eliot

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

– Dinah Sheridan

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

– Frank Herbert

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

– Phaedrus

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

– George Bernard Shaw

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

– Pamela Anderson

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

– Paul Tillich

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

– Maximilien Robespierre

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

– Ken Kesey

All cruelty springs from weakness.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

– Mason Cooley

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

– James Anthony Froude

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

– Lionel Trilling

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

– John Grierson

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

– Jung Chang

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

– Lupita Nyong’o

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