Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.
We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Cruelty is not a literary value.
Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?
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