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Cruelty is the pleasure in inflicting suffering or the inaction towards another's suffering when a clear remedy is readily available. Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept. Cruel ways of inflicting suffering may involve violence, but affirmative violence is not necessary for an act to be cruel. Etymology The term comes from Middle English, via the Old French term "crualte", which is based on Latin "crudelitas", from "crudelis". The word has metaphorical uses, for example, "The cliffs remained cruel." (i.e., unclimbable when they desperately needed to be climbed) in The Lord of the Rings. Usage in law The term cruelty is often used in law and criminology with regard to the treatment of animals, children, spouses, and prisoners. When cruelty to animals is discussed, it often refers to unnecessary suffering. In criminal law, it refers to punishment, torture, victimization, draconian measures, and cruel and unusual punishment. In divorce cases, many jurisdictions permit a cause of action for cruel and inhumane treatment.

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“He who seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, being entangled by bonds of enmity, cannot be free from enmity.”
— Dhammapada Verse 251
“Maybe God isn't the sex police, Richard. Sometimes I think Christians get all hung up on the sex thing because it's easier to worry about sex than to ask yourself, am I a good person? […] It makes it easy to be cruel, because as long as you're not fucking around, nothing you do can be that bad. Is that really all you think of God?”
— Anita Blake, to Richard Zeeman
“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.”
— C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins (1938), p. 88
“There is little more destructive than the passive bystander allowing cruelty to be freely imposed.”
— Sarah Schulman,
“Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat. A sadist is a man, who, in some sense, has his back to the wall. Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.”
— Colin Wilson in The Origins of the Sexual Impulse, p. 158.
“Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait à cette heure sur cet échafaud.”
— I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold.

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Notable quotes

“He who seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, being entangled by bonds of enmity, cannot be free from enmity.”
— Dhammapada Verse 251
“Maybe God isn't the sex police, Richard. Sometimes I think Christians get all hung up on the sex thing because it's easier to worry about sex than to ask yourself, am I a good person? […] It makes it easy to be cruel, because as long as you're not fucking around, nothing you do can be that bad. Is that really all you think of God?”
— Anita Blake, to Richard Zeeman
“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.”
— C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins (1938), p. 88
“There is little more destructive than the passive bystander allowing cruelty to be freely imposed.”
— Sarah Schulman,
“Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat. A sadist is a man, who, in some sense, has his back to the wall. Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.”
— Colin Wilson in The Origins of the Sexual Impulse, p. 158.
“Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait à cette heure sur cet échafaud.”
— I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold.

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