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When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other mis… to others, they’re obviously missing something from their lives.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Donald L. Hicks Cruelty Mean Meanness Missing Missing Something

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

~ Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy Cruelty

It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel was a cruel pleasure which, I thought, was bound to transfigure my own face, to make me resplendent. I was then 23 years old. From that moment on, I felt capable of advancing in cruelty.

~ Jean Genet

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The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

~ Matthew Scully

Matthew Scully Cruelty

Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.

~ Amy Engel

Amy Engel Cruelty

I think unfortunately society nowadays picks upon the fact that we should all fit into this perfect little box, perfect little label. Everybody has to be labelled, because that's what makes human beings feel comfortable, I know what that is. If they can't do that, they start thinking that's obviously not right.

~ Bbc Radio 4

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No decent person deliberately chooses to be violent or cruel. We must remove our blinkers and learn that in order to live according to our true values, we need to stop viewing animals as commodities to be used, abused and killed for our own selfish benefit.

~ Mango Wodzak

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When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.

~ Joyce Rachelle

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She builds people up because she knows what it is like to be torn down.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake the entirety of thecommon sense of humansand put it in the palm ofyour hand and still haveroom for your dick.

~ Anne Carson

Anne Carson Common Sense Cruelty

I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and vengeful I can be. Then I could go back to gentleness because I chose it over brutality for its own sake, not because I didn't have the courage to be cruel. I might even like cruelty. I doubt very much that I would, but I ought to find out.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Peter S. Beagle Cruelty Gentle Gentleness

[Men] act in response to an outward situation, and on being presented with an opportunity to conform to a pattern. If the pattern gives licence to cruelty, so much the better. They take advantage of the licence so thoughtlessly, so thoroughly, that it becomes perfectly clear: the generality of mankind are only waiting for the chance, only waiting for outward circumstance to sanction brutality and allow them to be cruel and brutal to their heart's content.

~ Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Cruelty

...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt

~ Stephen King

Stephen King Cruelty Stephen King The Green Mile

I'm not a cruel man. I mean, technically I'm not a man at all.

~ Erin Bow

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There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.

~ Lance Conrad

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He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.

~ Neal Shusterman

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Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence, begun in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau- and for what? It was the wantonness of it that stirred me.

~ H.g. Wells

H.g. Wells Cruelty Humanity

My mother always says that indifference is the greatest cruelty.

~ Mark T. Mustian

Mark T. Mustian Cruelty Indifference

Words can be as deadly as bullets. But bullets are faster acting. ~ Brandon Hull

~ Jayden Hunter

Jayden Hunter Cruelty Shooting Words Have Power

…did it make a difference if the remark never got back to the person about whom it was made? She thought not. The harm is done when the words are uttered: that is the act of belittlement, the act of diminishing the other, and it is that act which would cause pain to the victim. You said that about me? The wrong was located in the making of the cruel remark, rather than in the pain it might later cause.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

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…one of those dreadful boarding schools. It was down on the South Coast. I think some very unpleasant things happened there…. So many lives were distorted by such cruelty. I know so many men who had to put up with that, so many….

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

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I know about sureness,' said Didactylos. 'I remember, before I was blind, I went to Omnia once. And in your Citadel I saw a crowd stoning a man to death in a pit. Ever seen that?''It has to be done,' Brutha mumbled. 'So the soul can be shriven and-''Don't know about the soul. Never been that kind of philosopher,' said Didactylos. 'All I know is, it was a horrible sight.''The state of the body is not-''Oh, I'm not talking about the poor bugger in the pit,' said the philosopher. 'I'm talking about the people throwing the stones. They were sure all right. They were sure it wasn't them in the pit. You could see it in their faces. So glad it wan't them in the pit that they were throwing just as hard as they could.

~ Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Cruelty

Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. But I am convinced that he was not. Because even cowardice requires a certain degree of sensitivity, and a certain value for life.

~ Warren Eyster

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Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fellow-men and women, that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty.

~ Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Cruelty Indifference Wickedness

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

~ Johnny Rich

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The only thing crueler than a cage sosmall that a bird can’t fly is a cage solarge that a bird thinks it can fly.

~ Caroline Kepnes

Caroline Kepnes Cruelty Freedom

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

~ Stephen King

Stephen King Cruelty Harsh Truth Life

Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific.

~ Christopher Riche Evans

Christopher Riche Evans Cruelty

You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.

~ Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor Cruelty

Don’t fool yourself: we all have a cruel streak. We keep it under lock and key either because we’re afraid of getting punished or because we believe this will somehow make a difference, make the world a better place.

~ Tana French

Tana French Cruelty

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

~ Bernard Shaw George

Bernard Shaw George Cruelty Saint Joan

We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereotyped as less than capable, by an upside down world that thinks reality television is actually normal behavior.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty.“Why is it important?” Because when you read about it, it’s easier to recognize. That was always the hardest thing in the refugee camps—to hear the stories of the people who had been raped or mutilated or forced to watch a parent or a sister or a child be raped or killed. It’s very hard to come face-to-face with such cruelty. But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle. I think that’s why we all need to read about it. I think that’s one of the amazing things about Tennessee Williams’s plays. He was so attuned to cruelty—the way Stanley treats Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. It starts with asides and looks and put-downs. There are so many great examples from Shakespeare—when Goneril torments King Lear or the way Iago speaks to Othello. And what I love about Dickens is the way he presents all types of cruelty. You need to learn to recognize these things right from the start. Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

~ Will Schwalbe

Will Schwalbe Cruelty

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

~ L.m. Montgomery

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I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.

~ Archilochus

Archilochus Cruelty Self Defense War

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 Mcgill

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I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening to the wind in the palm trees outside our window, believing in our thick dreams that we are capable of nothing cruel.

~ Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter Cruelty Love Relationships

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

~ Henry Becque

Henry Becque Cruelty Decisiveness

Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not. They fail to understand that reaching the highest levels of power has nothing to do with admired attributes such as intelligence and competence. The predominant characteristic of those who rise to the highest levels of power is a total disregard for the consequences – including death – that will befall thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions of human beings if it is deemed necessary to attain his (or her) goals. Generally speaking, it is this total disregard for humanity that has distinguished ‘rulers’ throughout history.

~ Dave Champion

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