Kindness is cruel if it compromises the truth.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified…

— Douglas Groothuis

“Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you…

— L.H. Cosway

“You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do…

— Charlotte Brontë

If any human being that are truthful and thoughtful here ever again,let it be a kindhearted person.With that hope,I will never forget you forever…

— PrinceAzheef

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled…

— Lauren Oliver

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

— William Shakespeare

“my power is as cruel a joke as it can get? That’s”

— Katie D. Anderson

You must learn that to endure cruelty is to become cruel yourself

— Bleach

“Even the cruel feel pain. And even the cruel can change. I hope this changes him. He could do so much, if only he…

— Pierce Brown

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

— Graham Greene

“Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way.”

— Tegan Quin

“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists.”

— Keith Thompson