Quotes about Cruelty
what is God? "He's truth; He's meaning. He's my purpose and yours. With terrorists wiping people out, dealers hooking kids on meth and ecstasy, violence and cruelty; there's still love, comfort, joy, and hope. That's God. Without him, none of it makes sense.
— Kristen Heitzmann
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
— Anais Nin
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
— Pope John Paul II
Having lost this truth, what are we left with? Pornography and the cruel degradation of men, women, and children; death in the womb in the name of personal rights; the breakdown of the family for myriad reasons; the profanation of sex in our entertainment industry; violence in unprecedented proportions. One can only weep for the bleeding and the loss. In losing the high value that God has placed on the body, we are in a free fall, at the mercy of greed, cruelty, and lust.
— Ravi Zacharias
Once again we discover that everything happened according to God's will, not the scheme of men. Oh, Caiaphas played his part. Unable to rouse the crowd through his words, he did all he could to fan the flames of the worst in human emotion: fear, anger, and cruelty.
— Darlene Zschech
Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.
— Elton John
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
— Joseph Addison
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
— George Bernard Shaw
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
— George Bernard Shaw
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
— CS Lewis