| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Hume | Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. |
| Anatole France | If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one. |
| Edward Young | Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man. |
| George Eliot | Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more, The reign of violence is o'er!" |
| Honore de Balzac | Cruelty and fear shake hands together. |
| Louis XIII | I would love to see the grimace he is now making on the scaffold. |
| Mark Twain | When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama. |
| Robert Burns | Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! |
| Robert Burns | It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. |
| Robert Burns | Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! |
| Robinson Jeffers | Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. |
| Samuel Johnson | The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. |
| Seneca | All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. |
| Thomas Fowell Buxton | One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. |
| Thomas Hood | It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. |
| William Cowper | Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. |
| William Shakespeare | I must be cruel only to be kind. |
| William Shakespeare | See what a rent the envious Casca made. |
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