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

“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

“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

“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

“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

- Simple: Why do you always have to be so cruel? I'm not completely stupid.
- Jack: That fucking depends on your definition of "completely".
Riley Keough - Simple
Matt Dillon - Jack

“- Christina Delassalle: There is only one possible end. We are monsters. I don't like monsters.
- Nicole Horner: If it's only him, I feel better. I'll save the grain of sand falling from the hands of providence for my morality lessons.”
Véra Clouzot - Christina Delassalle
Simone Signoret - Nicole Horner

“- Lavinia Penniman: Can you be so cruel?
- Catherine Sloper: Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters.”
Miriam Hopkins - Lavinia Penniman
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Catherine Sloper

“- Mona Champagne: If you cannot argue constructively, what will mother do?
- Allison Champagne: Destroy our video games.
- Mona Champagne: Andrew...?
- Andrew Champagne: And the gaming system.
- Allison Champagne: Burn it while we watch.
- Mona Champagne: That's right. Don't forget what happened to your Legos.”
Katherine Heigl - Mona Champagne
Madison Wolfe - Allison Champagne
Aiden Flowers - Andrew Champagne

“- Hayley Stark: Tell me what you're haunted by.
- Jeff Kohlver: Do you wanna remember this day when you're with a guy? On a date? Or on your wedding night? 'Cause I promise you you will. Don't do that to yourself.
- Hayley Stark: You know, that is so thoughtful! You are speaking to me so selflessly! I mean, you just don't want me to castrate you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver

“I was born in a desert place. War was my only mother. As a child, I moved through the battlefield and slit the throats of screaming Russian boys. I firebombed my first tank when I was twelve-years-old and machine-gunned the crew as they fled, burning.”
Zoe Saldana - Aisha