Cruelty quotes

“The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness, that turns good men... cruel.”
Jeremy Irons - Alfred

When the handbill says "dead or alive", the rest of us just shoot you in the back from up on top a perch somewhere and bring you in dead over a saddle. But when John Ruth “The Hangman” catches you... You hang!
Samuel L. Jackson - Major Marquis Warren

“Be careful Mr. Frankenstein, you toy with wrathful forces. And there's no mercy in nature.”
Andrew Scott - Inspector Turpin

“This I believe in... I believe in death. I believe in disease. I believe in injustice and inhumanity, torture and anger and hate... I believe in murder. I believe in pain. I believe in cruelty and infidelity. I believe in slime and stink and every crawling, putrid thing... every possible ugliness and corruption, you son of a bitch. I believe......” (continue)(continue reading)
George C. Scott - Kinderman

“The world can be a cruel place to an honest man.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“There was one guy, but he don't shoot no more. A brutal son of a bitch. Most boys shoot to kill. He'd shoot to wound, wait till his friends come to help, kill them too. Turned one target into four. Men, women, children. Killed them by the hundreds.”
Levon Helm - Mr. Rate

“He did things that you wouldn't do to an animal that was bred for slaughter.”

Al Pacino - Jack Gramm

“We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us.”

Brad Pitt - Lt. Aldo Raine

“- Craig Jones: I ain't trying to be no dog-catcher!
- Mr. Jones: Why not?
- Craig Jones: I don't even like dogs!
- Mr. Jones: That's the beauty of it! I grab a dog, and I choke him, and I kick the shit out of him! All day long, my foot up a dog's ass! Just bang-bang-bang up his ass! That's my pleasure.”
Ice Cube - Craig Jones
John Witherspoon - Mr. Jones

“The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance.”
Aaron Eckhart - Two-Face

“- Day-Day: Get off my car! Get off of my shit!
- Craig: I ain't gettin down, watch out! I got sum'm for 'em.
- Day-Day: Hit his ass again! Fuck this...fuck!
- Joker: I can't believe he did that to our dog, eh!
- Day-Day: You uncle Willie's son, you Uncle Willie's son! You don't play dat shit!
- Joker: Cruelty to animals, Essay, cruelty to...” (continue)(continue reading)

Mike Epps - Day-Day
Ice Cube - Craig Jones
Jacob Vargas - Joker

“Love's cruel, love's a flirt. Love has places to go and people to hurt.”

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn - Gwen Moss

“What's Conover? No more than a symbol of the greed and cruelty and lust for power that have set men at each other's throats down through the centuries and the struggle will go on, Watson, for a pearl, kingdom, perhaps even world dominion... till the greed and cruelty have burned out of every last one of us. And when that time comes, perhaps even...” (continue)(continue reading)

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“- Darkness: Is your heart black and full of hate?
- Blix: Black as midnight, black as pitch, blacker than the foulest witch.”
Tim Curry - Darkness
Alice Playten - Blix

“This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.”
Isabella Rossellini - Lisle Von Rhuman

“- Kuzco: Okay, I admit it. Maybe I wasn't as nice as I should have been. But, Yzma, do you really want to kill me?
- Yzma: Just think of it as you're being let go, that your life's going in a different direction, that your body's part of a permanent outplacement.
- Kronk: Hey, that's kinda like what he said to you when you got fired.
- Yzma: I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Patrick Warburton - Kronk
Eartha Kitt - Yzma
David Spade - Kuzco

“- Jareth: Beware. I have been generous up 'til now. I can be cruel.
- Sarah: Generous? What have you done that's generous?
- Jareth: Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Bowie - Jareth
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah

“Honey, the world is being Fed-exed to hell in a hand cart. I really believe anyone thinking even thinking of bringing a child into the world is coldly considering an act of cruelty.”
Nicolas Cage - Stanley Goodspeed

“It's vanilla. He reacts to nothing. It's monstrous.”

Dominic West - Inspector Popil

“- Ken Kessler: We've got to be ruthless. Think ruthless.
- Sandy: What if I can't think ruthless?
- Ken Kessler: You've got to. It's good for you. It makes you strong.”
Judge Reinhold - Ken Kessler
Helen Slater - Sandy Kessler

“There’s nothing crueler than letting a dream end midway.”
Jun'ichi Suwabe - Shouta Aizawa

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”

Mandy Patinkin - Jason Gideon

“Life isn’t always fair. Sometimes the world can be cruel, and that’s why you have to learn to be cruel yourself.”
Martin Kove - John Kreese

“- Graciella Suarez: Even if you win today's battle, there's so much violence in what you do.
- Joe Coughlin: You don't think I'm strong enough?
- Graciella Suarez: I don't know if you're cruel enough.
- Joe Coughlin: Powerful men don't have to be cruel.”
Zoe Saldana - Graciela
Ben Affleck - Joe Coughlin

“There ain't much glory in lookin' at a man with his guts hanging out.”
George Peppard - Zeb Rawlings