Cruelty

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

— Cruelty

Detested sport,That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

— Cruelty

He who seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, being entangled by bonds of enmity, cannot be free from enmity.

— Cruelty

The FBI has found that a history of cruelty to animals is one of the traits that regularly appear in its computer records of serial rapists and murderers, and the standard diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and emotional disorders lists cruelty to animals as a diagnostic criterion for conduct disorders.

— Cruelty

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

— Cruelty

Maybe God isn't the sex police, Richard. Sometimes I think Christians get all hung up on the sex thing because it's easier to worry about sex than to ask yourself, am I a good person? […] It makes it easy to be cruel, because as long as you're not fucking around, nothing you do can be that bad. Is that really all you think of God?

— Cruelty

It is not linen you're wearing out,But human creatures' lives.

— Cruelty

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

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The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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I must be cruel, only to be kind.

— Cruelty

Men so noble,To load a falling man.

— Cruelty

See what a rent the envious Casca made.

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You are the cruell'st she alive,And leave the world no copy.

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If ever henceforth thouAs thou art tender to't.

— Cruelty

Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat. A sadist is a man, who, in some sense, has his back to the wall. Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.

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Inhumanity is caught from man,From smiling man.

— Cruelty

An angel with a trumpet said,The reign of violence is o'er!"

— Cruelty