The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.
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.
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.