Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Boris Pasternak

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Elizabeth Bowen

Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Fear is the parent of cruelty.
James Anthony Froude

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
Phaedrus

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
Bette Midler

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
Henry Rollins

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.
Jasmine Guy

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
Morarji Desai

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.
Julie Walters

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
Dinah Sheridan

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Kelly Miller

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
Jung Chang

I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.
Brent Spiner

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
Richard Russo

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
Clare Short

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
Ali MacGraw

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Renata Adler

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh Sherman