Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People can be cruel, and they will be. People can hurt you, break your heart and they will. But only you can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I say, if you hate cruelty, remember that nothing is so cruel in its consequences as the toleration of heresy!” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“All I meant to say is that a rake's humor has its basis in cruelty. He needs a victim, for he cannot… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Ever since I was little, I've been in love with animals. I've experienced their unconditional love, I've seen the difference they make… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
“Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and… — Kiley MacLeod Copy Share Image
“It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The modeling world – and the world at large – is a pretty cruel place. It’s up to you to decide whether… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove… — Sima Qian Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge… — Alison Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The cruelty and the meanness, that's why I'm not, I don't have a social media account that's public. — Ashley Biden Copy Share Image
In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.” — Amy Engel Copy Share Image
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty,… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is all about money, making a plan trying to help ourselves and letting other people fish .” — Crisci Copy Share Image
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
