“Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle, the theater is not possible.Antonin Artaud
“Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.Donatien Alphonse François (Marquis de Sade)
“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.Fyodor Dostoyevsky