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Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

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.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.