16 Movie Quotes about Cruelty (Sound Clips)

Updated: May 14, 2025

Memorable quotes about cruelty, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 The world is dark, and selfish, and cruel. If it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine, it destroys it.

Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel in Tangled

2 Even meaner? You mean it? Worse than the widows and orphans you drowned?

Quote from The Great Mouse Detective

3 They have terrible tortures. The thumbscrew and rack. -They stretch you and stretch you! -When I first came here, I was a midget.

Quote from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

4 We must try to understand other people more. -Understand cruelty and weakness? -Even that.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

5 It's a very cruel poem for children, but they need it, because life sometimes is very cruel.

Quote from Apocalypse Now

6 Then why should I show any compassion? Let her drown! And her child with her!

Hera in Clash of the Titans (1981)

7 There was cruelty and hardness in his voice. And yet something about him I liked. Something clean and honest, but hurt, badly hurt.

Frances Dee as Betsy Connell in I Walked with a Zombie

8 You remember the first night I saw you? You were looking at the sea. You were enchanted. But I felt I had to destroy that enchantment... make you see ugliness and cruelty.

Tom Conway as Paul Holland in I Walked with a Zombie

9 So, these are mortals? Do they all act this way towards one another? It seems so cruel compared to our world.

Quote from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

10 There's cruelty and hatred and tyranny in the world. You can't make believe they aren't there.

James Gleason as Peter "Pop" Benson in Suddenly (1954)