Quotes with cruelty

  • The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

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  • Bertrand Russell Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Shakespeare Farewell, fair cruelty.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • James Baldwin Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • James A. Froude Fear is the parent of cruelty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Louise Erdrich Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Seneca All cruelty springs from weakness.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Alphonse de Lamartine Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
    Alphonse de Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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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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  • Bryant H. McGill Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • William Blake Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Boris Pasternak Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Plato Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bette Midler Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • John Bunyan Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Jung Chang I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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