- Nov 07, 2020
Cruelty Quotes
Where harshness ends and mercy begins.
These cruelty quotes range from a stark wartime observation that harshness ends conflict sooner to a firm belief in preventing cruelty toward all living beings. See our Animals quotes for more.
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- Trying
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that really depresses me is animal cruelty.
- Gentleness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.
- Cats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.
- Pity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020