Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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.
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.
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 not a literary value.
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