In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
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 would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
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, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?
Cruelty is not a literary value.