C Quotes
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“Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.”
“Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.”
Source: Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways
“Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.”
“Cruelty is the only sin.”
“cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.”
“Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.”
Source: Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
“Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.”
Source: Marriage and Morals
“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.”
“Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.”
“Cruelty kills no cruelty, only kindness does it, fighting fire with fire turns the world to ashes. Bullets don't kill bigotry, only education does that, set your heart on fire, let all bask in your effulgence.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Cruelty, like lying, repels instantly and easily because it is 'ugly.' It is a vice that disfigures human characters, not a transgression of a divine or human rule.”
Source: Ordinary Vices
“Cruelty links all three primitives [pleasure, pain, and desire]: Spinoza defines it as the desire to inflict pain on someone we love or pity. Financial speaking, cruelty is analogous to a convertible bond whose debt and equity depend on three economic underliers: the stock price, the level of interest rates, and the credit worthiness of the company's debt.”
Source: Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
“Cruelty & menace; mix it with a cocktail of sweet liquor. Now laying in my bed, she taste sweet when I lick her.
I'm too irresistible like the forbidden of fruit but I'll satisfy your thirst, I'm something like the Truth.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.”
“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.”
“Cruelty, misfortune, thanklessness, and grief—a sure-fire recipe for madness." .”
Source: Shadows Within: A Collection of Dark Tales by Ali Zaka
“Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.”
“Cruelty: Not only the willful causing of unnecessary suffering, but the indifference to it.”
Source: Eating Animals
“Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.”
“cruelty ran in her blood.”
“Cruelty shouldn't be met with more cruelty; the cycle of violence must end. Yet, survival often demands a fight, and sometimes there's no clear answer to be applied. Choose your battles wisely; sparing the strike may be your first step away from your demise.”
“Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“Cruelty takes many forms, but all those forms depend on the human hability to dehumanize and de-individualize another person.”
Source: Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
“Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.”
“Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.”
Source: Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World
“Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.”
“cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.”
“Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.”
“Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.”
“Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.”
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.”
“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.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“Cruelty towards animals and child abuse make me feel vulnerable. I wish there was more I could do. I try to spread positive messages through my social media.”
“Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.”
“Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.”
Source: And No Man's Wit
“Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.”
Source: Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology: The Gnostic Method of Real Spiritual Awakening
“Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)
“Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.”
Source: Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women
“Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.”
“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.”
“Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.”
“Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.”
“Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call.”
“Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit.”
“Cruise to Covid-19.”
“Cruising down Compton Boulevard in the Catalina, Mickey sensed the charged atmosphere of the place, an energy that said anything could happen. Young men loitered in groups on the sidewalks in baggy T-shirts and bandannas while young women strolled up and down, smirking at the men hollering after them and whistling. When traffic lights turned red, blank-faced children appeared out of the darkness under overpasses like wraiths to sell drugs to drivers. Prostitutes wobbled along the streets on high heels, many of them with the vacant gaze of the addicted, while men with hard hearts and a lust for blood watched their every move. All the while well-intentioned families who called Compton home got ground up in the giant machine of this nation, slipping further toward poverty and the tragic moment when pressing need overtakes good intentions.
Even still, Compton was no longer what it once was. Ten years ago, Mickey might not have driven through it, and certainly wouldn’t have stopped and wandered around. But the homicide rate had decreased steadily since ’94, down to forty-eight murders in ’98 from a peak of eighty-seven in ’91, and small businesses were slowly but surely returning to the city. It bothered Mickey deeply that the state of California, with an economy greater than that of most countries, wouldn’t help these people, or that the federal government of the United States, the richest country in the history of the world, wouldn’t help them either, instead spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year on warfare and destruction. The people of Compton could be lifted from poverty with the signing of a bill, and it was no wonder, when you got right down to it, why so many had resorted to crime.”
Source: Porno Valley
“Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)”