Violence And Cruelty Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt, Simon Schama, Storm Jameson, Thomas Jefferson, Anne Holm and many others.
…so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person’s way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.
