All cruelty springs from weakness.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Roman Statesman 5 BC – 65 AD

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
--Morarji Desai – Indian Politician 1896-1995

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
--Alphonse de Lamartine – French Poet 1790-1869

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
--Harriet Ann Jacobs – American Writer 1813-1897

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
--Jodie Foster – American Actress Born 1962

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
--George Eliot – British Author 1819-1880

Fear is the parent of cruelty.
--James Anthony Froude – English Historian 1818-1894

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
--Phaedrus – Roman Poet 15 BC – 50 AD

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
--Anna Sewell – English Writer 1820-1878⁶