Best Cruel World Quotes

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

The only morality in a cruel world is chance.

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

I’ll tell you one thing, it’s a cruel, cruel world.

Everything starts with yourself / with you making up your mind about what you’re going to do with your life. I tell kids that it’s a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it’s up to them to decide which way to bend.

I’m just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it’s understanding of being human.

These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

This world,’ she said. ‘Do you really like it?’ What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger again and didn’t mind where that was. It’s a cruel world, don’t you think?’ Meggie went on. ‘Mo often told me I forget how cruel it is too easily.’ With his burned fingers, Farid stroke her fair hair. It shone even in the dark. ‘They’re all cruel,’ he said. ‘The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don’t see the cruelty in your world right away, it’s better hidden, but it’s there all the same.

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

It’s a cruel world, don’t you think?

The hopes of Europe’s six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No’….From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people…The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world…Only the branch of the young shall survive…They have to accept it.

Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It’s when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

Finally, please remember this. If you EVER need something that you can stand behind, something to help you to take on and deflect all of the hatred of this often cruel world, you will ALWAYS have Black Veil Brides.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.