The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It’s also chicken-shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously—like technology allows so many people to… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness,… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
“He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The cruelest thing you can do to a person is pretend they mean more to you than they actually do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's terrible because people see stars like JLo and Beyoncé wearing fur and they don't think about the cruelty that goes into… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
“And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like I was transformed by the kindness of people who had every reason to show me cruelty and the transformative… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Out of respect to Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, it's best not to examine too closely the hangups of her husband, Lincoln Project… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less… — Hans Askenasy Copy Share Image
Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed… — James Hurst Copy Share Image
“Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed… — Junius Copy Share Image
Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a… — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
“Blood dripped from his blackfly bites. The bottle flies swarmed the wounds on his head and back, but with his arms secured… — Circa24 Copy Share Image
“They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You’re gorgeous, Gabriel. You always were, you know.” “Nature’s cruelty— the fallen angel retains his beauty. But I’m ugly on the inside.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Loving someone doesn't mean you have to be with that someone, because sometimes Fate plays a fool on us and we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
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