True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his heaven on earth.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

... 't is a cruelty To load a falling man.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency