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-----those whose cruelty makes many mourn Do by the fires, which they first kindle, burn. - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling Cruelty and fear shake hands together. - Honore de Balzac Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! - Honore de Balzac Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! - Robert Burns, Man Was Made to Mourn All just laws condemn cruelty. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. - Thomas Carlyle It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.] - attributed to Charles IX Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. - William Cowper, Task (bk. III, l. 326) A good thing can't be cruel. - Charles Dickens Cruelty, like every, other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. - Thomas Hardy It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. - Thomas Hood, Song of the Shirt Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. - Alexander Hume (Home), History of England (vol. I, ch. LXII) Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. - Robinson Jeffers An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. - Walter Savage Landor 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. - Walter Savage Landor The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more, The reign of violence is o'er!" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Occultation of Orion (st. 6) I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.] - Louis XIII, see "Historie de Louis XIII", IV, p. 416 He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.] - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (I, 150) The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England (vol. I, ch. II) The man who prates about the cruelty of angling will be found invariably to beat his wife. - Christopher North (pseudonym of John Wilson (2)) When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause. - Ronald Reagan All cruelty springs from weakness. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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