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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
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 a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
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, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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