We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
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.
We are not by nature cruel.
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.
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 tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?
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