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| Det är grymhet mot de oskyldiga att inte straffa de skyldiga. | Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) |
| Farväl, fagra grymhet. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Människor är grymma men människan är god. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt | Anna Sewell (1820-1878) |
| Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us | Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) |
| One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel | Thomas Fowell Buxton |
| Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain | Annie Dillard (1945-) |
| Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Cruelty and fear shake hands together | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| People in general are cruel to one another. The only way to have fun to them is to make fun of someone. I hate that. Why can't someone be different.why can't someone be themselves without being made fun of? I hate society because of how they judge pe | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. | Raisa M. Gorbachev |
| Cruelty is in theory a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain | Annie Dillard (1945-) |
| Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would | Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) |
| Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us | Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) |
| Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel | Thomas Fowell Buxton |