Cruelty

Cruelty

Cruelty is indifference to suffering, and even pleasure in inflicting it. If this habit is supported by a legal or social framework, then it receives the name of perversion. Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept.

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Famous quotes containing the word cruelty:

    If Americans could understand what a painful, searing experience it is when Negro children first begin to realize that the mere color of their skin is to be the source of a lifelong discrimination, it might do more to end our cruelty toward the Negro than all the preaching on justice and equality.
    Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    Ever more blood, ever more torments! My cruelty is exhausted and yet cannot stop; I want to be feared, but I only provoke.
    Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    It was mankind that hung on the cross for two thousand years: and a terrible god practiced his cruelty and called it “love.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)