Alice Walker

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.

American Author

Richard Hofstadter

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

American Historian

John McCain

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

American Politician

Sajid Khan

What immensely touches me and moves me is cruelty against children and elder people. That is something I am sensitive about, I don't cry otherwise.

George Eliot

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.

British Author

Bertrand Russell

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

British Philosopher

Adrien Brody

I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.

American Actor

Ken Kesey

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

Ali MacGraw

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

American Actress

Frank Herbert

American Writer

Cruelty often involves strong negative feelings towards others.

Negative Emotion

Emphasizes how the victim is negatively affected by the cruelty shown to them.

Impact on Victim

Used to highlight the severity of a situation or atmosphere created by cruel acts.

Grave Situation

Shows a response to cruelty that indicates personal hardship or emotional challenge.

Personal Struggle

Focuses on cruelty witnessed or experienced collectively, often in extreme circumstances like war.

Witnessing Inhumanity

Cruelty can refer to both physical harm and emotional suffering.

Physical and Emotional

Indicates that cruelty can be punishable by law, especially in cases of abuse.

Legal Consequences

In a legal context, proving 'cruelty' requires evidence of harmful behavior.

Evidence in Court

 that all around the world people are becoming less and less accepting of suffering in ever-widening circles of others, which has led to declines of all kinds of cruelty and violence, from animal abuse to domestic violence to capital punishment. And it's led to increases in all kinds of altruism. A hundred years ago, people would have thought it was ludicrous

Why some people are more...

 There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. And, of course, our change in standards can outpace the change in behavior. One of the reasons violence went down is that people got sick of the carnage and cruelty in their time.

The surprising decline...

 and the end depends on the reasoner's passions. Reason can lay out a road map to peace and harmony if the reasoner wants peace and harmony, but it can also lay out a road map to conflict and strife if the reasoner delights in conflict and strife. Can reason force the reasoner to want less cruelty and waste?

Steven Pinker and...

 I suddenly understood that the crisis in my body was the crisis in the world, and it wasn't happening later, it was happening now. Suddenly, my cancer was a cancer that was everywhere, the cancer of cruelty, the cancer of greed, the cancer that gets inside people

Eve Ensler: Suddenly, my...

 plants it's really beef without cruelty look at these comparisons Moringa has more vitamin A than carrots more iron than spinach potassium that madonna's calcium than milk protein than yogurt vitamin C than oranges and that's just

Mother Nature’s...

 that English had shaken and beaten his son they arrested me for aggravated battery cruelty to children and then when they pulled the plug on my son's life they upgraded the charges to malice murder cruelty and children aggravated

Prison Victim PIPE National...

 The cruelty of his punishment lies in its singular futility, but Camus argues all of humanity is in the same position. And only when we accept the meaninglessness of our lives can we face the absurd with our heads held high.

Is life meaningless? And...

 than to images on a screen. When we behave violently towards robots, specifically robots that are designed to mimic life, is that a healthy outlet for violent behavior or is that training our cruelty muscles? We don't know

Why we have an emotional...

 to untether the lines. Many of them drown. For as long as he can recall, he's been forced to work on the lake. Terrified of his master, he will not run away, and since he's been treated with cruelty all his life,

Lisa Kristine: Photos...

 because now instead of just my own hate and cruelty to try to figure out, I had a whole world of hate I wanted to unravel and understand and fix.