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:

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

    “Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: “I want that in sacrifice.” This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)