Cruel Acts Quotes

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Human beings can do some God-awful things to other human beings

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.

What constitutes a cruel and unusual punishment has not been exactly decided. It has been said that ordinarily the terms imply something inhuman and barbarous.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.

Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.

The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.