Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has…

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so…

— Anonymous

Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more…

— David Hume

“LUKE Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not, Yet have I ta’en both uniform and life From thee. What manner of a man wert…

— Ian Doescher

Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Before anyone brands me cruel, remember that Ceja knocked out my tooth for corrupting a nonexistent sister. And while this wasn’t a conscious revenge,…

— Johnny Shaw

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one…

— Terry Pratchett

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

— Oswald Mosley

There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.

— Amal El-Mohtar

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around…

— Jay-Z

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want…

— Macaulay Culkin

'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the…

— Paul Feig

It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a…

— Harold McGee

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped…

— Daniel J. Boorstin