I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.
Any reports of animal cruelty should be thoroughly investigated and those operators held accountable.
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‘See, you did it yourself.’
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues – probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life – even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.
The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking.
In London, ‘Equus’ caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.
I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something – the power of tsunamis, etc. But it’s human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
‘I’m a Celebrity’ is not my cup of tea whatsoever. I don’t like the animal cruelty in it, to be honest.
I have been vocal about various social causes in India and has actively taken up matters of gender equality, cruelty against animals, discrimination towards COVID-19 warriors, etc to the Parliament.
I’m totally against animal cruelty. I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.
As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
Shelter dogs should be adopted into loving homes, not used in cruel experiments. That’s why I support the Cruelty Free International global dog campaign.
We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don’t know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don’t have the guts to admit that I do.
There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way of coping. And there is a kind of cruelty to it, but you can separate finding something horrible funny, and what you really think of it.
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind – it is only the difference in the victim.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Hollywood, Twitter, our friends – they all contribute to a community of snark. The more we engage in the way that everyone else engages, the more followers, likes, and RTs we get. But we can’t rail against the cyberbullies without acknowledging what we also contribute to a culture of cruelty.
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
The truth doesn’t have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
I think my cruelty hides beneath the surface a lot more than Sue Sylvester’s.
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do – not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it.
I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.
Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of ‘Civus romanus sum’ set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.
What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit – racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.
London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.
Besides, wouldn’t it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
After dealing with so much dark energy and investigating violent people for my job, I value creatures with pure souls – animals, especially dogs. I believe a higher power/god created these creatures to give us balance from people who can be truly evil. I am an active voice and supporter against animal cruelty.
I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
I couldn’t watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.
I’m very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
Fewer people than you might think seem to have truly enjoyed their formative education and, for those who did not, one theme in particular recurs: the breathtaking cruelty of children.
When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it’s an act of complicit cruelty.
I’m not satisfied with the term ‘evil.’ We’ve inherited this word… and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don’t think it’s anything more than another word for doing something bad.
As a society, there are times when we need to stand together against indecency and cruelty.
I’m proud to join Cruelty Free International in calling on the United States to end cosmetics testing on animals.
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare – but we haven’t applied the same standards to food we import, so all we’re really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
I get so upset about news stories and the cruelty in the world. I can’t process it. And I just think there’s enough of it out there. It doesn’t need me to add to it. Nobody needs Ruth Jones’s take on nasty.
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.
Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow’s milk.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.
I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.
When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.
People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in ‘Enclave.’
