Quotes: Cruelty

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

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.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.