Cruel Quotes

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

We are not by nature cruel.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy.

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

The law is cruel.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

The world of modeling can be hard; just as cruel as it is glamorous.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.

I can be a cruel person.