Quotes with cruel

  • People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
  • Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
  • Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
  • Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
  • It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
  • The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
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  • Joseph Addison That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas Paine Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Brigitte Bardot China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Ouida A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Tennessee Williams All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Ann Landers All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Publilius Syrus An angry father is most cruel toward himself.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Caroline Knapp Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Wendell Phillips Aristocracy is always cruel.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Martin Luther Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
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  • Carlos Fuentes Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • John Gay Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Aristotle Cruel is the strife of brothers.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Caleb Cushing Cruel war, war at home; and in the perspective distance, a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Caesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
    On what the impending civil strife would mean to the nation. Speech, Bangor, Maine, 11 January 1860.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Samuel Johnson Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Tony Dorsett Everything starts with yourself - with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
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  • Ouida Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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