An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more, The reign of violence is o'er!" (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. (Quote by - Thomas Fowell Buxton)

If you kept a dog in an environment like this, they would arrest you for animal cruelty. It's like a cesspool. (Quote by - Cindy Davis)

It [the world] must be a world in which affection has free play, in which love is purged of the instinct for domination, in which cruelty and envy have been dispelled by happiness and the unfettered development of all the instincts that build up life and fill it with mental delights. Such a world is possible; it waits only for men to wish to create it. (Quote by - Contributed by: Maya Elhalal)

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. (Quote by - Harriet Ann Jacobs)

The child learns to worship money and the things which money can buy; he admires cruelty and cunning, rather than Sympathy and Love. So, the Home, the School and the Society have to rise and take up this challenge posed to the future of this great land. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)

Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness. (Quote by - Ingrid Holtby)

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. (Quote by - Robinson Jeffers)

They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. (Quote by - William Penn)

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. (Quote by - Jodie Foster)

It's the ultimate in hunter cruelty. (Quote by - Heidi Prescott)

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. (Quote by - George Eliot)

I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil. (Quote by - Charles Mayo)

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 effect. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

Cruelty to animals needs to be a matter of public concern as it directly affect public safety and human welfare. It can no longer be perceived of as merely an issue of animal welfare. (Quote by - Diane Balkin)

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)

If you eat meat, you support cruelty to animals. (Quote by - Chris Link)

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - - or can't - - join the Big Parade. (Quote by - Bette Midler)

Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so strong as widespread. But the time must come where in humanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by th. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)