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:

    “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)

    “There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

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    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)