#cruel

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#doctrine #guilt #make #nothing #ourselves

Farewell, fair cruelty. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fair #farewell

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#because #cruel #cynical #finally #i

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them. ↗

— Peter Singer

#capture #cruel #eating #find #fish

An angry father is most cruel towards himself. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#angry #cruel #father #himself #most

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cruel #heart #into #know #looking

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up. ↗

— Julie Walters

#had #i #images #jerry #mixed

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#condition #consent #contemplation #cruel #cruelty

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#cruel #family #had #humor #i

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#gods #hubris #humanity #cruelty