Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The only thing crueler than a cage sosmall that a bird can’t fly is a cage solarge that a bird thinks it can fly.

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.

Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use cruelty to push them away.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

April is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.

All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form

Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.