Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Cruelty

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude—it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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I would not enter on my list of friends the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
William Cowper (1731–1800) English Anglican Poet, Hymn writer

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the by-standers cruel.
Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet (1786–1845) English Politician, Social Reformer

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic

Man’s inhumanity to man, makes countless thousands mourn.
Robert Burns (1759–96) Scottish Poet, Songwriter

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. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French Theologian, Musician, Philosopher, Physician

All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

Detested sport, that owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
William Cowper (1731–1800) English Anglican Poet, Hymn writer

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