Bertrand Russell Cruelty Quotations

Cruelty is in theory a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.