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Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more, The reign of violence is o'er!"

I would love to see the grimace he is now making on the scaffold.

He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

I must be cruel only to be kind.

See what a rent the envious Casca made.

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy.

And you, enchantment, Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too, That makes himself, but for our honor therein, Unworthy thee-if ever henceforth thou These rural latches to his entrance open, Or hoop his body more with thy embraces, I will devise a death as cruel for thee As thou art tender to't.

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.