Pastoral Resources

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious 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.

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.