Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional they are sceptical and mystical they are romantic and ironic they are cruel and tender and full of mirth and despair.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents but grow out of the very essence of religion namely its absolute claims.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

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.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

The greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Give your dog or cat respect patience understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

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

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

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost and a price to be paid.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature 'human' might be the greater insult.

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

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.