Quotes

Quotes about Cruelty

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

Eric Hoffer

Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy.

Anne Fox

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Leon Trotsky

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)