All cruelty springs from weakness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
Morarji Desai

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Andrea Dworkin

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
Joan D. Vinge

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

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Samuel Butler

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Bryant H. McGill

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Robinson Jeffers

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Mason Cooley

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Jodie Foster

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

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
Paul Tillich

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw

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